Missing Sharday

UPDATE:

A Mamoral father of two whose daughter went missing 170 days ago, is pleading with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith to keep good on his promise to set up a cold-case and missing-persons unit to help find her.

Junior Emmanuel says he has not had a decent night’s rest since his daughter Sharday, then 20, went missing and has not been accounted for.

He and relatives spent weeks pasting posters on utility poles with Sharday’s photo and their contact number, hoping that someone would help find her.

Now with Christmas fast approaching, Emmanuel remains heartbroken and fears he may never see his daughter’s smiling face or touch her delicate hands ever again.

On June 27, Sharday was seen being driven from her Mamoral home in a car by a man she knew. When she failed to return home, her family reported her missing and two men were questioned over her disappearance. A suspect was kept in police custody for several days but then released pending further investigations.

Emmanuel said yesterday, “When I heard that Commissioner Griffith was in the process of forming a cold-case and missing-persons unit, I felt some sort of relief that no effort will be spared in trying to find out about the whereabouts of my daughter.”

He said he waited to find out if the unit had been formed, but heard nothing.
“All the police keep telling me is that the matter is not a cold case, and that they are waiting on certain evidence before a charge could be laid.

“But that is not giving me any comfort. I want closure. I want to know what happened to my daughter, I need to know that there are people working ‘round the clock to find my daughter or to ascertain if she is still alive or dead. This Christmas will be the first without my daughter.”

Yesterday, Griffith said the unit will be set up in the new year. He said he is leaving for New York on Sunday to meet with law-enforcement agencies, including the New York Police Department, and expertise will be sought from New York and the United Kingdom in setting up the unit.

“If we are having problems increasing our detection rate using the same old methods and not getting the desired results, it means that we have do things differently.”

Griffith admitted that there is an existing cold-case unit of five retired senior officers, but believes it needs to be beefed up.

“The Police Commissioner needs new and vibrant minds with the latest training and capacity to understand crime investigations for cold cases, and this can be done through expert advice from people on the outside and even those on the inside.”

ORIGINAL STORY:

A Mamoral father of two, whose daughter went missing 170 days ago is pleading with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith to keep good on his promise to set up a cold case and missing persons unit.

He said he hopes every effort will be made to find his daughter who vanished without a trace.

Junior Emmanuel said he has not had a decent night’s rest since Sharday, 21, went missing.

He and relatives spent weeks pasting posters on utility poles with Sharday’s photo and their contact number hoping that someone would assist in finding her.

Now with Christmas fast approaching, Junior remains heartbroken that he may never see his daughter’s smiling face or touch her delicate hands ever again.

Sharday was last seen on June 27 leaving her Mamoral home in a car driven by a man known to her. When she failed to return home, her family reported her missing and police questioned two men about her disappearance.