Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
Nineteen years after she was charged with kidnapping an infant, 41-year-old Colleen Osbourne hoped for closure in the matter.
Unfortunately, the mother of four was killed after her Kia Sportage crashed into the median along the Uriah Butler Highway just before the Caroni overpass sometime after 2 am yesterday.
She died at the scene.
Speaking with reporters at his Pleasantville home on Wednesday, Colleen’s father, Richard Osbourne, said his daughter owned a massage therapy business, she loved her children and she enjoyed her life.
He said she was frustrated over the almost two-decade-old kidnapping case against her that is still pending in the High Court.
Colleen and three other people were charged with kidnapping three-year-old Saada Singh from the Giselle Montessori School in Vistabella on June 3, 2004. One of her co-accused, Jonathon Moonsammy, was murdered in 2017.
Recalling that the matter last came up virtually in the High Court 2022, he said it was adjourned for another time.
Expressing his disgust with the lengthy delay of the matter, he said the case was assigned to various courts, magistrates and judges. Noting that his daughter was hoping for closure, he said, “This last time she was frustrated.”
Osbourne was not sure where his daughter went, but he believed she may have been heading to her home in Debe.
Her two younger children, a teenage boy and a seven-year-old girl, lived with her
Colleen’s two other children live abroad. “She was coming back because she was on the southbound lane, and she is a person who don’t really drop asleep at the wheel, according to all her friends. She party, but she doesn’t really fall asleep on the wheel, so I don’t know if she skidded or whatever. That hour in the morning could be a bad drive because I understand there were two accidents,” he said.
Osbourne said the police contacted Colleen’s mother, and then she called him about half past three yesterday morning with the tragic news.
He said, “She is a well-known person, very jovial, likes to help people, likes to party. I last spoke to her the day before yesterday. She was good.” Osbourne felt that proper cable barriers and increased speed traps would assist in preventing serious accidents. Central Division police are investigating the accident.
