IN JAMAICA: Disbelief! - Hanover man, 36-year- old fisherman Ricardo Hylton, allegedly kills wife, 27-year-old shopkeeper Leonora Eldemire-Hylton, self, as their relationship soured...

Thursday, June 19, 2014 

BUSH LANDS, Hanover — Bewildered residents of this rustic community are still in a state of shock and disbelief, following Sunday's bizarre incident that has left a couple dead, a house burnt to the down, and hundreds in mourning, stemming from what many believe is the souring of their 11-year relationship.

Dead are 36-year- old fisherman Ricardo Hylton, and his wife, 27-year-old shopkeeper Leonora Eldemire-Hylton, both of Bush Lands, Hanover.

Their charred remains were removed from the rubble of their two- bedroom house, just two days after their first wedding anniversary.

Ricardo Hylton and wife Leonora are a picture of
happiness shortly after tying the knot one year ago.

Area residents contend that Hylton torched the house, then committed suicide inside the dwelling, after killing his wife, who had decided to bring their 11- year relationship to an end.

Joycelyn Black- Hilton, a distressed mother of the fisherman, told the Jamaica Observer West that hours before the awful tragedy, her son informed her of his intention to commit suicide, pointing out that his wife had decided to sever the union, which produced a nine- year- old daughter.

"Sunday afternoon after I left church I came round here and saw him and he said he was going to kill himself. I asked him why and him say Mama she say she finish with me and me love her too much, me can't lose her," said a teary-eyed Black- Hilton.

"Me say don't think that, lots of woman are around. If she say she finish with you, is you wife already and you love her, but give her some time."

Black-Hylton said, however, that during her visit to the house, there was no sign of any differences between the couple.

Smoldering remains of burnt out home

"Now me don't know if them start to fight, but me never hear them a argue before me leave," she added.

An anguished Black- Hylton stressed that she was told by her son that his wife was averse to salvaging the relationship.

"Him (son) tell me say him call the pastor who married them and the pastor say him couldn't come on Sunday, but he would come the following day. He wanted him to come and counsel her. Him have a Caucasian friend in America and him call him to come talk to her and she say she doesn't want him to come talk to her. She say she don't want no counseling," the grief-stricken mother claimed. more