BY GARFIELD MYERS Editor-at-Large South/Central Bureau myersg@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, November 20, 2014
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) yesterday evening joined the St Elizabeth police as they struggled to piece together a puzzle surrounding the death, apparently by poisoning, of Kerry-Ann Powell, a 30-year-old teacher at Park Mountain Primary School, just west of this south-central town.
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Powell's boyfriend (name withheld) — with whom she and her twin daughters shared a home in the Horizon Park housing estate in Santa Cruz — is in hospital in stable condition suffering from the effects of what appeared to be chemical poisoning, police say.
INDECOM said it was probing the incident because one of three suspects is a member of the police force.
The three suspects, INDECOM said, are in police custody.
Reports from relatives and friends of the victims say the two adults were up and getting ready for work and school some time shortly after daylight when, according to the boyfriend, two men and a woman entered the house.
The boyfriend, described by neighbours as a truck operator, reportedly said he was "sprayed" in the face with some sort of chemical and fled in panic to the bathroom to wash it off. He later exited the bathroom to find that Powell had been forced to ingest a substance of some kind.
Neighbours say both victims were heard crying for "murder" and "help". They were reportedly rushed to hospital where she succumbed. The two children were not hurt, relatives and neighbours say.
The boyfriend was said by neighbours to have separated from his wife, who moved out some time ago. Neighbours said Powell had moved in with him in recent months.
Head of the St Elizabeth police, Superintendent Lanford Salmon, told the Jamaica Observer that his team was diligently probing the incident but that information was "sketchy" and confusing.
"What I can confirm is that a woman is dead and it seems to be connected to something toxic. I can also confirm that a man is in hospital in connection with the same incident," Salmon said. more
Okay then the information is going to be sketchy because a member of the JCF was involved, November trial date how is it that nothing is being heard about it????
ReplyDeleteYou’ll are a bunch of liars the so called boyfriend is telling lies too follow the story of the children they saw what those culprits did ,hurt Mi heart fi know seh such an amazing woman was murdered and the jcf and the stupid ass government not playing their roles
Uno sick mi bloodclaat stomach