WESTGATE, St James – The Venerable Hollis Peter Lynch on Sunday urged the motorist who mowed down Loha Karen Chin and her daughter, Melanie, along the Bay West thoroughfare on September 11, and drove off without stopping, to come forward.

“God does not like injustice. I pray that the one who has done this will be brought to justice,” he said in his sermon to the family and friends of mother and daughter who congregated at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Westgate, Montego Bay, to give thanks for the lives of the two.

It was an emotional ceremony which saw a flood of students of the Montego Bay Preparatory school from which Melanie had just graduated and the Cornwall College which her brother Sheldon attends, coming out to pay tributes in song and verse.

Pointing out that it was the first time he had the occasion to perform the last rites for a mother and daughter simultaneously, Lynch urged Loha Karen’s husband, Peter Chin, and son, Sheldon, not to become embittered.

“God has a purpose for mother and daughter and whatever that purpose is, it won’t go away…He allows this to make you grow and blossom like a flower… You will have to make life now… God sees that and He’s your only answer,” the priest said.

Mother and daughter were eulogised as caring, intelligent persons at Sunday’s service which was followed by interment in the Pye River Cemetery. Twelve-year-old Melanie, who had been accepted to the Montego Bay High School for girls, had recently returned to the island from a visit to Hong Kong, the land of her mother’s birth.

Vice-principal of the Montego Bay Prep school, Lilleth Hudson, said the little girl – an all-rounder who excelled in several facets of school life – had been all excited to tell her friends about the visit.