Retired police officer still missing

Peter Christopher pchristopher@trinidadexpress.com

Wednesday, March 12th 2008


ONE month later, and there still has been no sign of retired police officer Brian Lalla. His family, has many questions but, still there is little or no answer from them.

"We want answers, that's all what we want, and we are hearing nothing nothing," said Lydia Lalla, the missing man's daughter.

On February 12, the security guard left to drop off lunch for a co-worker. He and the Mazda Familia station wagon, PCC 8510, he was driving on the day have not been seen since.

On Sunday, relatives searched the forest at Cumberland Hill, St James where they found a freshly dug grave.

His wife, Poorandaye Singh, 47, has been on edge, every report of a missing person gains her attention but her trips to the Forensic Science Centre have brought her disappointment.

Twice she visited the Port of Spain General Hospital, going to the bed of the very same man, after being told by police he was an unidentified man who could possibly be her husband.

"How long his picture has been circulating. What are the police doing, the least they could check before calling," said Lydia Lalla, expressing her disappointment at both the police and Pentagon Security Services, her husband's employers.

Anyone with information concerning Lalla's whereabouts is asked to contact Arima police at 667-2191 or 667-3474.