ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA December 19 – Four months after the shocking death of former Senator Neilon Franklin, his grieving family appears to be viewing a close female associate as a person of interest in what an independent autopsy concluded was a fatal poisoning.

In an exclusive interview with popular talk show host Jenny Simon on the latest edition of the podcast “Simon Says,” family members detailed a troubling pattern of behavior they say characterized the woman’s relationship with the 27-year-old customs officer and opposition senator.

“There is information from the family that Neilon was concerned about the unwanted, unsolicited, and excessive attention he was getting from the female,” Simon revealed during the broadcast.

According to family members, Franklin’s sister said he described the attention as “stalking” and that “the female would show up wherever he was” once he posted his location online.

The family recounted that the woman appeared uninvited at Franklin’s SGU graduation ceremony and was present at the hospital on the day he died.

What happened next has deepened the family’s suspicions. According to the interview, after Franklin’s death at the General Hospital on August 25, 2025, the woman took possession of his cellphone from his hospital bed. Family members say she accessed the device, changed his profile, made posts from his account, and answered incoming calls – including from Franklin’s sisters.

When one sister called from the UK, the woman reportedly responded with hostility: “Why are you calling this number? Why are you calling Neilon’s phone?”

The family says it took nearly a week and stern demands from Franklin’s cousin before the phone was returned to his mother on August 30, 2025.

After Franklin’s burial, the woman requested a meeting with the family at Camerhogne Park, family members told Simon.

During that encounter, she expressed concern about circulating rumors and “threatened to a point about suing and calling names of officials,” according to the podcast.

The meeting came after Franklin’s mother was heard crying at the funeral, saying “wickedness in high places” – a statement that apparently bothered the woman.

Family members also described conflicting stories from witnesses, with accounts varying about whether someone gave Franklin his last drink or whether he mixed it himself throughout the night of the party.
The tragedy began on what seemed like an ordinary Saturday, August 23, 2025.

Franklin helped his mother carry groceries up the steps to their home, then attended a birthday party at a neighborhood shop within walking distance.

His mother called him around 9 PM asking if he could get her an inhaler, but the shop had closed.
Franklin stayed at the party until the early morning hours.

Around 5:00-5:30 AM on Sunday, August 24, his mother was awakened by the wrenching sounds of her son vomiting.
Later that morning, as his mother prepared for church, Franklin came to the kitchen for water.

He took the bottle, then collapsed on the floor right in front of her. Though he regained consciousness quickly, he was disoriented, sweating profusely, and trembling.
“Inside of him was hurting,” he told his mother.

At the hospital emergency room, blood tests revealed concerning results. Franklin was kept for observation, but his condition rapidly deteriorated. By 5 PM that Sunday afternoon, he had lost his sight, became severely disoriented, and told his mother and sister: “I don’t even know who’s there… my whole body hurting.”

Franklin began having seizures. Medical staff were organizing to transfer him to the ICU when he passed away.
The family contacted a pathologist from Trinidad to conduct an independent autopsy.

According to family members, “as soon as he opened the body,” the doctor told them Franklin had been poisoned, though samples needed to be sent back to Trinidad and eventually to Mona Campus in Jamaica to determine the specific substance used.

A certificate of analysis obtained by Simon confirms the poisoning, showing that “Nilan was poisoned really badly… His entire body was consumed with the poison,” Simon stated during the broadcast.

In a GBN News report, Franklin’s mother made an emotional appeal for justice.
“I’m looking for justice for my child, because he was a good child, no problem with me. He was a good child and never was in any conflict with anybody, loving the people,” she said through tears.
“They celebrate his death,” she continued, her voice breaking. “He was a good child, and I’m hurting, I’m hurting. I need justice, I need justice for my child.”

Franklin’s mother told GBN she had received no official communication from the Royal Grenada Police Force regarding autopsy results, despite newspaper reports claiming they had been released. “The last she heard anything from police was over one month ago,” GBN reported.

The Royal Grenadian Police Force is reportedly handling the case.
As of this week, Franklin’s family says they have heard nothing from police about the investigation’s progress.

“It’s been four months now, and we’ve heard nothing from the RGPF on Neilon Franklin’s murder case,” Simon reported. “Has anyone been picked up for questioning or as a person of interest? We don’t know, we were not told.”

The Royal Grenadian Police Force has not issued an official statement on the status of the investigation.