Even as they bid a final farewell to 34-year-old Laura Sankar yesterday, relatives still could not come to terms with the tragic way she lost her life.
Sankar was chopped to death in front of her two sons, ages 16, and seven, at her home on Saturday. Her husband Narad appeared in court on Tuesday charged with her murder.
“Why?” sobbed Sankar’s niece as she delivered the eulogy at the funeral service at her Post Office Trace, New Grant, Princes Town home.
Lamenting that “this cruel and evil world,” did not deserve a pure soul like Sankar’s, she said: “Laura Sankar was a kind joyful and hardworking mom. Regardless of what her kids always came first. Everyone saw her smiling, laughing. Nobody would have thought that she was fighting so many silent battles.”
She said Sankar’s children had been left heartbroken, “mash up and torn up inside.”
Adding that she considered Sankar a mother and was sad she would not see her graduate or achieve “great things” she pledged to pursue a career in nursing in honour of Sankar who had aspirations of becoming a nurse.
Principal Audrey Hughes-Jackson, along with teachers and students of Tableland Secondary School where Sankar’s son is a student attended the funeral.
A teacher who gave her name as Ms Roopnarine said it was with a “sad heart” that they extended condolences to the Sankar family on behalf of the school.
She assured that Sankar’s son has the support of the school body.
“We hope that God will give him peace knowing that the situation that has happened. It is such a sad thing when domestic violence takes place in our society and it’s especially trying and challenging for the people who are left behind to deal with the situation that has happened,” she said.
Princes Town MP Barry Padarath urged the mourners to seek the best interest and welfare of the children and be their brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.
Following the service held under Hindu rites, cremation took place at the Shore of Peace in South Oropouche.
