Wednesday 31 December 2014

We are still crying


Another grey and cold day as if the place is still crying for Kim. Her husband came today and I have spent most of my day going around with him. Got very annoyed with the police who kept going on about how he must inform the family. Husband explained how complicated her family is but felt compelled to comply and phoned up her 15 year old daughter as we were on the way to the Town Hall to talk to the WC. He used her mother's phone, tried to get her father's phone number but she wouldn't give it to him so he just baldly told her that her mother had committed suicide. Then he broke down and became rather short. Fortunately she was staying with friends who then took over.

Poor child. The police seem more concerned with covering their own backsides and getting off on time and don't seem very sensitive. They were struggling with the language because he doesn't speak Tamil and he got quite annoyed at how they kept asking him the same questions again and again. He is also very tired and grief stricken.


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