Public urged not to judge murdered nurse Sadna Gangoo

THREE pastors and the aunt of murdered beauty queen Sadna Ramsaroop Gangoo urged the public not to judge her.

The stirring appeal was made at Gangoo's funeral at her home in Fairfield, Princes Town on June 30.

“(Let him) who is without sin cast the first stone,” Bishop Mark Mangray, one of the officiating pastors from the Church of the Latter Day Saints, of which Gangoo was a member, challenged.

“In this room, how many of us can stand and say they are sinless, they are without sin? I cannot.
"Only one man can and that man is Jesus Christ.”

He and his colleagues, Magnish Ramoutar and Joseph Warner, said despite her imperfections, Gangoo was an overall good person who spent her life in the service of others.

Ramoutar could barely contain his emotions as he preached part of the sermon.

“If you see me break down and start to cry, please bear with me.
"Sadna was a wonderful person. I know when Sadna worked in the covid hospital in Debe, she used to risk her life to save other people’s life. She was always serving, helping the sick, the poor.

“I always say today, money cannot pay doctors and nurses for their services. She used to do it with joy.”

He said, “There is no perfect person in this world. Our good deeds must always outweigh our bad deeds. We all make mistakes and we could repent and come to Christ.”

Warner also recalled his interaction with Gangoo as a nurse.

"If she saw an opportunity to help someone and she could do it, she seized it.

“None of us are perfect. We all have imperfections. Sadna had imperfections...but she was a very good person.”

Mangray said Gangoo made it her duty to care for his wife a decade ago.

“She demonstrated Christ-like care to my wife.”

On June 26, Gangoo was shot in the head outside the Princes Town District Health Facility, where she worked. Police are exploring theories linking viral videos to her death.

In her eulogy, Gangoo's aunt Cintra Ramjattan wept as she contemplated the circumstances that led to her niece's death.

“We are not God. We don’t judge. No person in this world is perfect. Everybody does wrong, everybody do right, so none of us here should point a finger at anybody,” Ramjattan stressed.

She appealed for support for Gangoo’s mother Sandra Samaroo, her son Stephen Samaroo, his wife Zara and her grandchildren, Sebastian and Zidan Samaroo.

“Any one of us could relate to the mother’s pain?

“Right now they all need your support. They don’t need negative thoughts or negative words."

“The Sadna I know is a really wonderful person. She is a nurse, she is a caregiver (who) always had a nice word to say.

“When you are in trouble, Sadna is there. When you need medication, Sadna gets it for you. When you come to her home she opened her door and her heart to you.”

She told mourners of Gangoo’s struggle, coming from a poor background, but sacrificing to educate herself to become a nurse.

Gangoo’s friend Moses Charles said he has regrets that a conversation they were to continue this week never happened.

“Sadna was the light of the world. She was an inspiration. She was always kind to workers, colleagues, patients. She was totally a blessing.”

Gangoo was cremated at the Shore of Peace, La Romaine.

Mourners include Dr Brian Armour, CEO of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA), and many of her colleagues, in their uniforms.

Investigations are still continuing into her death.