Mother of murdered woman happy at guilty verdict but still wonders why (+video)

Although she is happy that a jury has found the man accused of killing her daughter guilty, a mother still grapples with the question of why her eldest was stabbed to death.

In a locked director’s office of Bijou Real Estate at Arnos Vale, the body of Sharleen Greaves was discovered on the morning of November 13, 2015.
Almost seven years after this, a jury trial has been held at High Court Number One in Kingstown examining the evidence against accused Veron Primus .

Mother of the deceased, Inether Holder, was determined to be present for every day of the trial and sat through 20 witnesses, lengthy closing arguments and Justice Brian Cottle’s summation of the mountain of evidence presented.

The jury began their deliberation yesterday, July 18, at 9:16 am, and returned to the juror’s box at 12:41 pm with a unanimous verdict of ‘guilty’.

Greaves’ mother waited the three hours seated in the courtroom in the same perch that she had adopted for most of the trial.

“I was just there praying… Telling the God above He know who do it and just as long as I get justice it’s all I need,” she explained.

“I feel good but just one thing…I still don’t know why. I still don’t know why. I would like to know the reason why,” she told the media after they requested a comment shortly afterwards.

It was the reason she attended every day of the trial, she revealed. She wanted to know why her joyful, friendly and outspoken daughter was murdered and she wanted “justice” for her.

“And if I have to do it again I would come all over again,” she added, and that she will be present for the sentencing.

The process was not an easy one for her and she cried when looking at the crime scene photos and during certain testimonies.

The last seven years have been “hell” for her, she says.

“For me it was hell, going through all of it and having to live and deal with it. I just wish I coulda see she walking coming through the gates, but I can’t.”

In order to give herself strength she carried two photos of Greaves with her, and has marked one photograph with the dates of the beginning and ending of the trial.

Holder feels convinced that Primus killed her daughter.

“Even though I still have the feelings that somebody else is involved, I know and I feel that he’s the one that did the actual stabbing. He’s the one that used the knife,” she stated.

She has never spoken to Primus and does not have plans to, unless it is to ask him why he murdered Sharleen.

The matter of sentencing is expected to kick off with mitigation on September 21. The reason for the prolonged gap is due to uncertainty surrounding when defence counsel, Michael Wyllie, will return to the country after leaving to seek medical advice on a problem affecting his spine.

“I would like him to go away for life or even death… because nothing can’t bring she back,” Holder said, “and he don’t deserve to live.”

The grieving parent added, “He don’t deserve to live because he take her life and if she can’t live, he shouldn’t live.”