JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Monday, February 3, 2025

Judge stops funeral for autopsy

by

709 days ago
20230224

A High Court Judge has grant­ed an in­junc­tion stop­ping the fu­ner­al of an 88-year-old San Juan woman to al­low for an au­top­sy to de­ter­mine whether she starved to death.

Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad grant­ed the in­junc­tion to the woman’s daugh­ter Nef­fritte Bo­cas-Larkin yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, short­ly be­fore the fu­ner­al was due to take place at 3 pm. 

In 2020, Bo­cas-Larkin, who re­sides in the US, sued her sis­ter El­isha Bo­cas over al­leged­ly deny­ing her ac­cess to their moth­er Toolin, and their fam­i­ly home at El So­cor­ro Road, San Juan.  

Bo­cas-Larkin claimed that be­fore their fa­ther Ah­mid Bo­cas passed away he ex­e­cut­ed a will in which he left the prop­er­ty to his wife and his four chil­dren. She claimed that af­ter her fa­ther’s fu­ner­al, her sis­ter took cus­tody of their el­der­ly moth­er and the house. 

In 2021, High Court Judge Joan Charles grant­ed an in­junc­tion grant­i­ng Bo­cas-Larkin ac­cess to her moth­er and the prop­er­ty on her pe­ri­od­ic trips to Trinidad. 

In the court fil­ings, Bo­cas-Larkin claimed she was forced to again seek ju­di­cial in­ter­ven­tion as her sis­ter al­leged­ly sought to take full con­trol of the prop­er­ty af­ter their moth­er died ear­li­er this month. 

De­scrib­ing the al­leged be­hav­iour of Bo­cas-Larkin’s sis­ter as un­con­scionable, her lawyers claimed that be­tween 2007 and 2012 their client spent US$10,000 on ren­o­vat­ing the house and im­prov­ing its mar­ket val­ue. 

Through her sub­stan­tive case, Bo­cas-Larkin is seek­ing a de­c­la­ra­tion that she has a ben­e­fi­cial in­ter­est in the prop­er­ty and an­oth­er grant­i­ng her equal ac­cess. She is al­so seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion from her sis­ter. 

Un­der the terms of the in­junc­tion, Jus­tice Seep­er­sad or­dered Bo­cas-Larkin to pay the costs as­so­ci­at­ed with the pri­vate au­top­sy and the fu­ner­al in­clud­ing stor­ing of her moth­er’s body un­til the au­top­sy is com­plet­ed on Mon­day. 

The case is sched­uled to come up for hear­ing be­fore Jus­tice Seep­er­sad on Mon­day. 

Bo­cas-Larkin was rep­re­sent­ed by James Philbert. 

CourtInstagram


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored