The dra­mat­ic res­cue of kid­napped moth­er Na­tal­ie Pol­lon­ais and the sub­se­quent ar­rests of three po­lice of­fi­cers has brought re­newed hope to Mark Sookdeo, whose wife Ria Sookdeo was ab­duct­ed two years ago.

The ab­duc­tion was wit­nessed by some­one who saw Sookdeo be­ing tak­en away by a man wear­ing a po­lice uni­form, near the Pic­ton Pres­by­ter­ian School at Pa­pourie Road, Di­a­mond.

A sketch of the sus­pect was pro­vid­ed to the po­lice but de­spite its wide­spread cir­cu­la­tion, no one was ever ar­rest­ed and Ria was nev­er found.

Vil­lagers in her com­mu­ni­ty be­came so fear­ful that they em­barked on a self-im­posed cur­few for months fol­low­ing Ria's dis­ap­pear­ance.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Mark said the kid­nap­ping of Na­tal­ie Pol­lon­ais last Thurs­day and her sub­se­quent res­cue on Mon­day night, brought back hope that some­day the mys­tery of Ria's dis­ap­pear­ance could be solved.

"I want the Com­mis­sion­er to look in­to her case and bring some clo­sure for my fam­i­ly and my chil­dren," Mark said yes­ter­day. He added that Pol­lon­ais kid­nap­ping had pet­ri­fied the fam­i­ly and when they heard she was res­cued, they felt re­lief.

"There is a lot of talk all over that Ria's kid­nap­ping may be linked. I do not know. Every­one is send­ing pho­tos and sketch­es and this has brought back a lot of pain.

I hope the po­lice can do what they did for Na­tal­ie and bring back my wife.

At least let us know what hap­pened to her," Mark said.

He added that apart from Ria, there were sev­er­al oth­er fam­i­lies whose loved ones were miss­ing.

Mark said un­der the watch of Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith, he was hope­ful.

"So far we have a new po­lice com­mis­sion­er and he has been try­ing to make an im­pact for the ben­e­fit of the whole coun­try. He is do­ing things dif­fer­ent­ly. It is a good sign and I hope that the men who kid­napped Na­tal­ie Pol­lon­ais will be brought to jus­tice," Mark said.

He added that since Ria was ab­duct­ed, their lives have been in tur­moil.

"I try my best to do what I can for our chil­dren. I get them in­volved in sports. It will nev­er be the same but at least we are hop­ing that we can get some clo­sure," Mark said.

Sookdeo, a moth­er of two, was ab­duct­ed near Di­a­mond Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do on Sep­tem­ber 16 2016, af­ter drop­ping off her chil­dren to the Pic­ton Pres­by­ter­ian school.

Grif­fith in a What­sapp mes­sage said he was de­ter­mined to ar­rest every­one who was part of Pol­lon­ais's kid­nap­ping.

He de­clined to com­ment on the three men who are cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody. Sources say the sus­pects in­clude two con­sta­bles from the La Ro­maine po­lice post and a cor­po­ral from the High­way Pa­trol Di­vi­sion.