The family of the late Princess Cooper has requested delivery of the body for burial.
The request was made to the Government of Liberia through the Justice Ministry via a formal communication.
In a statement released Wednesday May 25, 2022, the family said they are aware that Princess died mysteriously and that her lifeless body was found in the FAWAZ Building Material Store Compound at the ELWA junction on March 24, 2022.
According to the family, since the death of their marketable, industrious and productive daughter, sister Princess, there have been frantic efforts in the quest of achieving justice ranging from aiding investigators, staging peaceful march for justice and the contacting of independent forensic pathologists out of our borders.
The family further stressed that since the incidence, there has been several dissatisfactions, unnecessary missteps, unjustified denier by the government through the LNP and the Justice Ministry within the investigation proceedings.
The family however, has brought to the public nine-count reservation for which they would demand the body in order to rather give their late daughter a befitting burial and explained that they have witnessed and are yet to have tangible reasons for which the crime scene was totally exposed and furthermore never protected for a certain period due to the critical occurrence of Princess’ mysterious death.
The also stated that the lack of willingness and acceptance to have brought in all residents within the FAWAZ COMPOUND alongside some nearby residents of the crime scene surroundings as well as eye witnesses of whom they believed could have been strategically questioned thereby using that which would have been gathered from them to be compared with the confirmed visible assessments gathered from the crime scene noting, “that is if there was any proper assessment done at all.”
The family said there was also few individuals captured as persons of interest but amongst those only certain personalities were exposed to the public both via mentioning their names and publishing an in-house investigation video with one of the listed person of interest leaving out an unidentified Lebanese personality of whom the public is yet to be informed as to why was he captured and what was gathered during the then investigation with him.
The bereaved family also stated that the first abrupt Preliminary Report published by the Police which then confirmed that there was no foul played though without any medical examination whereas is believed to have had already undermined the fair play of this entire investigation process.
The family said their formal complaint was confirmed directly reported through the Justice Ministry to the government of Liberia regarding their disapproval for an autopsy to have been conducted by Dr. Benedict Kolee and his team due to qualification concerns which was never adhered to.
The family said the Police has since failed even before or after the autopsy to have provided a comprehensive report from what was gathered from its executed investigation so that one would see if it has any form of collaboration with the agreed Government of Liberia Autopsy Report.
They further stated that as the bereaved family, they were and have never been respected in regards to communications during the entire process either directly or through their lawyers and that with all the hurdles and resistances visibly notified in getting a designated pathologists into the country even after the very same government through President George Manneh Weah offer, seemed to be a tangible contradiction and signals huge fraud as well as uncovered motives.
“Our many efforts made towards this process ranging from formal communications sent to the Ministry of Justice followed by boycotting the autopsy upon our confirmed notification that all of our communications and actions was never recognized by the Justice Ministry and the GOL at large, staging numerous of peaceful protests for justice during which times we were mal-handled, ruthlessly beaten, and incarcerated without charges, successfully contacting pathologists out of the Country which we considered to be independent,” they recounted.
