One year af­ter the mys­te­ri­ous deaths of thir­ty-four-year-old Shevonne Mof­fat and six­ty-two-year-old Gem­ma Alex­is in a Mo­ri­ah apart­ment, their fam­i­ly is still won­der­ing what hap­pened to them.

The sis­ters were found dead on De­cem­ber 27 last year by the land­lord but de­spite au­top­sies on their bod­ies, the cause of death re­mains un­known.

Their au­top­sy re­ports came back in­con­clu­sive, leav­ing po­lice to wait on tox­i­col­o­gy re­ports on the bod­ies.

Con­tact­ed for an up­date on the case, Mof­fat’s un­cle, who didn’t want to be named, said po­lice and foren­sic ex­perts have not pro­vid­ed any clear ex­pla­na­tions, leav­ing the fam­i­ly with more ques­tions than an­swers.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, the rel­a­tive lament­ed, “It’s a to­tal mys­tery. It’s a sit­u­a­tion with all of us that is out of this world, and it is to­tal­ly iron­ic how it is up to now we haven’t got­ten any an­swer from the po­lice or the foren­sic de­part­ment.

“It is re­al­ly baf­fling how we haven’t got­ten an an­swer con­cern­ing the deaths of two women. What’s go­ing on? We are left with more ques­tions than an­swers over the past 12 months.”

He said he has been deeply af­fect­ed by the loss, so much so he fell ill short­ly af­ter hear­ing about the deaths and has been on med­ica­tion ever since. He said he couldn’t even at­tend the fu­ner­al be­cause he couldn’t cope with the grief.

“The au­thor­i­ties aren’t giv­ing us an­swers up to now. It hurts so much, and it doesn’t make sense. Shevonne’s death put me in hos­pi­tal. I got a head stroke right af­ter, and from then to now, I’m on med­ica­tion. I’m sick. I didn’t go to the fu­ner­al be­cause I couldn’t take it.”

Af­ter a year of no an­swers, he said the fam­i­ly has stopped ask­ing for in­for­ma­tion, feel­ing they may nev­er know the truth. He said the mys­tery still haunts the fam­i­ly, but he will con­tin­ue to hope that one day the truth will fi­nal­ly come to light.

Gem­ma was dis­cov­ered ly­ing on her back on the bed, wear­ing a white night­gown. Shevonne was found on the floor be­side the bed, with her head rest­ing on Gem­ma’s lap. There were no signs of vi­o­lence on their bod­ies.

Shevonne moved to To­ba­go soon af­ter her moth­er was mur­dered years ago. Gem­ma vis­it­ed her for the sea­son last year. The sis­ters were last seen head­ing to the apart­ment on Christ­mas Eve.

“We are not go­ing look­ing for any an­swer, but if one comes to us, we will ac­cept it. Right now, we are not go­ing to search be­cause we re­alised it’s a no-no even ask­ing for an an­swer con­cern­ing the deaths of those two sis­ters,” the rel­a­tive said.

At­tempts to get an up­date on po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the case were un­suc­cess­ful.