BY GARFIELD MYERS Editor-at-Large South/Central Bureau myersg@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, November 23, 2014
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Authoritative police sources have confirmed that a policeman detained in connection with the suspected poisoning death of a teacher early Wednesday has been released pending further investigations.
However, a woman, also held in relation to the death of 30-year-old teacher Kerry-Ann Powell remained in custody up to yesterday afternoon, police sources said. Police are said to be in search of a third person, who was named as an assailant in the alleged poison attack on Powell and her boyfriend (name withheld).
The two were allegedly doused by a toxic substance shortly after daylight early Wednesday by three people, including a woman, who had entered the house at Horizon Park, Santa Cruz, in which the couple lived with Powell's nine-year-old twin daughters. The children were not harmed.
It was confirmed yesterday that the boyfriend, a truck operator, was released from hospital on Friday after recovering from the effects of the suspected poisonous substance.
The Jamaica Observer made contact with the survivor of the toxic attack yesterday. However, he declined to be interviewed for fear of "damaging" or compromising the ongoing investigation. He would say only that "everything will come to light".
A police investigator who declined to be named told the Sunday Observer much the same thing yesterday. "Intense investigations are ongoing and the truth will come out," the police source said.
Powell and her two children had lived at Horizon Park with her boyfriend for "sometime", neighbours confirmed. This was after the latter's estranged wife moved out. more
This is soooo sad,the boyfriend wife must b involved in it...young girl just dead so lef har two young kids...life without parole mi sey fi all who involved...god nuh sleep what goes around comes around...dem time will come
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