Af­ter spend­ing two days search­ing for the ex­act spot where his par­ents were buried, Kwen­cyd Sookram fi­nal­ly found a clue on Wednes­day.

The cross which marked the spot where Veroni and John­ny Hen­ry had been laid to rest side-by-side, was found along­side a drain on the pe­riph­ery of the Roodal Ceme­tery.

The ceme­tery had been dis­turbed by a con­trac­tor in­volved in earth­works for the San Fer­nan­do Wa­ter­front project.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia on Wednes­day, Sookram said the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion sent a team on Tues­day and marked and mea­sured the plots. They showed him a spot where his par­ents could have been buried but he was un­sure whether that was the ex­act lo­ca­tion.

But Sookram said af­ter search­ing on his own, he found the cross ly­ing in the drain which showed where their re­mains were ly­ing.

Up­set that the spot had been des­e­crat­ed, Sookram said he has since sought le­gal ad­vice and planned to sue both the Cor­po­ra­tion and the con­trac­tor for dam­ag­ing his par­ents' graves. 

Sookram said his fa­ther John­ny died two years ago at the age of 95 while his moth­er died in 2016. Their cas­kets were placed next to each oth­er near some palm trees.

"It is dis­heart­en­ing to know that they lived long hap­py lives, mar­ried to each oth­er for 65 years and now when they are rest­ing, they can­not rest be­cause there is con­struc­tion on top of them," he said.

Sookram added, " A rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the con­trac­tor called and said they will mea­sure back the spots and make me as com­fort­able and sat­is­fied as pos­si­ble. 

I am go­ing to ask them if they can do an un­der­ground scan to find the right spot of my par­ents. That row where my par­ents were buried were row 18 and num­bers 50 and 48 are the spots. There were no new graves there ex­cept for my par­ents from what I un­der­stand."

Since the sto­ry was pub­lished, Sookram said an­oth­er rel­a­tive reached out say­ing her rel­a­tive's grave was al­so af­fect­ed.

A con­trac­tor has been clear­ing away the mound of dirt from the side of the ceme­tery and has been restor­ing the graves with the as­sis­tance of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion.