SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

The fam­i­ly of miss­ing prison of­fi­cer Alexan­der John­son is plead­ing with the pub­lic for help in lo­cat­ing him.

John­son, a fa­ther of four, left his Bar­rack­pore home on Wednes­day morn­ing with­out say­ing where he was go­ing and failed to re­port to work lat­er that day.

He is as­signed to the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in Ari­ma.

John­son, 35, was seen by a rel­a­tive stand­ing on the road near his home in Bar­rack­pore around 8.30 am, wear­ing a brown jer­sey and black short pants. He had left his wal­let, wed­ding ring, cell phone and car at home.

In an in­ter­view at their house yes­ter­day, his wife Af­fi­an said it was strange that he did not take his wal­let or cell­phone and his dis­ap­pear­ance had her con­fused and stressed.

“That ques­tion hard be­cause I wouldn’t say he get kid­nap be­cause he would nev­er leave these things with me, like he know what he was do­ing. I just pray­ing to God that he come back home,” she lament­ed.

Af­fi­an said her hus­band loves their chil­dren, ages 14, eight, six, and two, and has al­ways pro­vid­ed for them. While she knew his work was stress­ful, the wife said John­son nev­er spoke about any is­sues.

Mean­while, the miss­ing of­fi­cer’s moth­er, Michelle, could not hold back her tears. She said John­son is the el­dest of her three chil­dren and a qui­et and re­spon­si­ble man.

“I am so dis­pleased about the sit­u­a­tion right now. I am very hurt, very sad be­cause this nev­er hap­pen,” the moth­er said.

She said John­son was sup­posed to have re­port­ed for du­ty that evening but some­time af­ter 9 pm, his col­league told them he did not turn up for work.

“It shock­ing me be­cause usu­al­ly he will go to work, he will come back home that is how he will op­er­ate. He don’t lime, he don’t smoke. He don’t fete. He’s a church per­son,” said the moth­er.

How­ev­er, his sis­ter Shana­da re­called that on Tues­day he spoke with their oth­er sis­ter in To­ba­go and some­thing was awry. The po­lice vis­it­ed John­son’s home on Wednes­day and are in con­tact with the fam­i­ly.