Heartbreak - Woman dreads first Mother’s Day without son who was killed in road crash

Last Mother's Day, Monique Hill prepared dinner and spent the afternoon laughing and joking with her then six-year-old son Dilshan McLean.

He had given her a hand-made card and she felt that was the greatest gift ever. But, this Mother's Day on Sunday, there will be no laughter in Hill's dwelling, only tears. Little Dilshan was killed after he was struck down by a motorist outside of his school, Bridgeport Primary, on April 1.

Hall was a picture of pain and despair when THE WEEKEND STAR visited her at her Caymanas Estate home in St Catherine. She burst into tears as she explained how nightmarish the past month has been.

"It just hard, mi don't know how mi ago do this but mi will never be the same again. I had a rough childhood, so I spoiled him. I worked hard and took insults for my baby, and all of it was in vain because he was taken away from me. Mi don't sleep a night-time. As mi doze off, is mi son dead body dat mi a see," she said.

"Him tell mi say him want mi to teach him to cook because him want to look after breakfast for mi. A the first Mother's Day without mi son, mi anuh mother again. Sunday, mi ago stay inna mi house and lock up. Normally, mi and him would just sit down and laugh and eat and him would trouble mi and say 'Yuh can take time eat eno'. Dilshan was my best friend," Hill added.

Police said the incident occurred about 1: 50 p.m. It is alleged that Dilshan and another student walked into the road as the vehicle was approaching. It hit both of them but the other student survived. Dilshan's family has, however, refuted the official report, stating that the youngsters were hit from the sidewalk. With tears streaming down her face, Hill said she still searches her house for her only child. The stress of losing him landed her in the Spanish Town Hospital where she was admitted for a week.

"My soul and everything gone. Mi wake up five o'clock a search the house for him because mi still couldn't believe say him not here. Up to this day, I keep telling myself I am dreaming and I am going to wake up again. Sometimes mi feel like mi ago mad. Mi carry mi son go school every morning and mi still a listen fi hear him father drop him off and him run come call mi to open the door. But that will never happen again," she lamented.

She said, while her son's life will never be replaced, she is hoping that justice will be served.

"My life was changed on April 1 and it is very unfair," she said.