The mother of escapee Vicky Boodram wants her daughter to surrender to the police.
Still reeling in shock at her Gambal Street, Siparia home yesterday, Indra Lall said the incident had left her upset and hurt.
“This is worst than the first time (Boodram’s arrest),” said Lall as she wiped her tears away.
Sitting on a chair in her gallery facing the roadway, Lall said since her daughter’s incarceration she sits there every day hoping in vain to see her daughter walk through the gate. However, Lall does not expect that Boodram will ever come home or call her.
“Vicky is too smart for that,” said the mother.
Lall said she had no idea where her daughter could be hiding, but felt it would make no sense making a public appeal to her daughter, whom she described as stubborn.
Asked what she would say to her daughter if she made an appeal, she said: “I will tell her to turn herself in because it is a worse matter. There is no good thing about it. What more can I say, but is if she would heed.”
Lall has been visiting Boodram at least once a month in prison since her incarceration last year. Recalling her last visit with Boodram last month, she said her daughter was her usual self and gave no hint that she was planning an escape.
“She was very normal. Vicky is Vicky, whatever pain she going through she will not show it,” she said. She said she learned about Boodram’s escape through a news report.
“What I see on the the news yesterday, it throw me back against the wall. It was terrible,” Lall said, adding she was concerned about her daughter’s safety, especially with the police searching for her.
“I am concerned but what can I say. It is left in God’s hands, whatever happen so be it. There is nothing I can do. I cannot hold anybody hand. I don’t know whose hands to hold,” said Lall.
Saying the situation with her daughter had taken a toll on her health, she said just three months ago her husband Ramdass Boodram died after suffering a stroke.
However, Lall said the police had not yet contacted her up to the time she was speaking to the T&T Guardian.
In what has been hailed as the greatest escape in the country’s history, Boodram, who is facing over 170 fraud and money laundering charges, walked out of the Women’s Prison at Golden Grove, Arouca, with two police officers on Monday evening and never returned.
The T&T Prison Service has since stated that around 5.15 pm, Boodram was “legitimately handed” over to WPC Navarro and PC Sylvester after they presented a court note from the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court ordering her appearance. After all protocols and procedures were followed, the release stated, Boodram was released into the officers’ care.