An­na-Lisa Paul

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the cause of the fire which de­stroyed a Mor­vant house on Mon­day, claim­ing the life of three-year-old Ki­mani Braith­waite, the boy’s moth­er be­lieves it may have been elec­tri­cal in na­ture.

Dur­ing her vis­it to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James on Tues­day, Braith­waite’s moth­er, Crys­tal Braith­waite, said, “Fire of­fi­cers tell us that it might be an elec­tri­cal fire cause I had just re-wire the house and the man leave some of the break­ers like what­ev­er...and it catch a fire.”

The fire, which be­gan around 1 pm, claimed Ki­mani’s life and left his moth­er and two broth­ers, aged five and sev­en, home­less.

Crys­tal left the three chil­dren in the care of her un­cle Roul­ston Stanis­laus on Mon­day.

She said, “We went down the road cause the chil­dren said they want­ed piz­za. We leave them with their great un­cle. I leave them watch­ing car­toon up­stairs and be­fore I even reach by the piz­za place, they say the place on fire.”

The dis­traught moth­er added, “They nev­er even get out the ba­by. I just leave my child for less than 15 min­utes and when I come back, my child dead.”

Ques­tion­ing what would hap­pen now as the fam­i­ly has been left with­out any ac­com­mo­da­tion and are de­pen­dent on the kind­ness of friends and fam­i­ly, Crys­tal said she had been re­fur­bish­ing the home, where her two broth­ers had pre­vi­ous­ly been killed.

She said she moved back to the house at Petu­nia Av­enue, Co­conut Dri­ve, Mor­vant, fol­low­ing the mur­ders of her two broth­ers, nine and 16, back in 2014, be­cause she could not con­tin­ue rent­ing.

De­spite the tragedy which oc­curred at the house, Crys­tal said she had in­vest­ed all her sav­ings in­to re­fur­bish­ing it.

She said, “We went and were fix­ing up the place. I must be spend over $150,000 to fix every­thing in the house. I fix the house with all the mon­ey I had saved and now I have nowhere to go with my two chil­dren.”

She said she may now be left with no op­tion now but to seek Gov­ern­ment as­sis­tance.

“We are stay­ing by a neigh­bour up the road, but we have noth­ing, every­thing was com­plete­ly de­stroyed.”

The sin­gle moth­er added, “I don’t have any re­al sup­port. I mind­ing my chil­dren by my­self so this re­al hurt­ing me right now.”

Asked how Ki­mani’s sib­lings were cop­ing with his death, she said, “They not do­ing well. They cry­ing and ask­ing for their broth­er cause the three of them were re­al close.”