Commissioner of Police Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho yesterday said the Fiji Police Force was aware that people could be taking property belonging to victims of accidents.

Brigadier-General Qiliho was responding to a plea made by a German national, Lia Prasad, for the wedding band and mobile phone of her late husband and conservation organisation WWF Pacific diver Sumit Krishna Prasad, who was the victim of a fatal accident at Veisari outside Lami in July.

Commissioner Qiliho said Police officers did their best to secure the belongings of the victims, and made a public request if people knew of anyone who was up to mischief in this case to report the matter to the Police.

Mr Prasad died in the road accident and his wife, is pleading for the location of the wedding ring and mobile phone.

The late Sumit Krishna Prasad with his wife Lia Prasad.

“The ring has my name on it (LIA), it has a unique pattern and the ring size is 56, he had very skinny fingers and mine is just one size down. It would probably just fit any girl,” she said through electronic mail with Fiji Sun.

Ms Prasad said that after enquiries with expertise from authorities in Germany, a video actually showed that her late husband could not have left the lane he was driving on.

Ms Prasad said she did not wish to go back and dig into the past because it would not bring Mr Prasad back to life.

“My daughters need me more than ever and I don’t have the energy for any trial. He had just 10 days left and he would have been in Germany with us for the next two- five years,” she said.

“He got a scholarship from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and was sponsored for his master’s degree,” she said.

She said he would be wearing his wedding ring all the time except when he was diving and he was wearing it on Monday night, the week of the accident when they were on Skype the last time they communicated.

Ms Prasad said she looked in the damaged car but just cut herself in the process. She said the ring would not have just fallen off.

“Everything was still in the car, at the back seat except for his iPhone 4 and his wedding ring was not on his finger,” she said.

Mr Prasad’s boss had collected his possessions but the phone and ring were not amongst them, she added.

“The phone had a password and the switch off button on top didn’t work so it wouldn’t be any use for anybody. I just want the memories. The phone I don’t care.”

The WWF Pacific did not wish to make a comment when contacted yesterday.

Edited by Naisa Koroi

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