IN JAMAICA (LATEST UPDATE) : THE two 16-year-old boys accused of killing 79-year-old retired nurse Hyacinth Hayden, allegedly planned robbery behind bars... Reportedly approached husband for work prior to murder..."They met in jail where they planned to get a gun which they say they wanted to use to rob rich people,"

BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter  Thursday, January 08, 2015    

GREEN PARK, Trelawny — THE two 16-year-old boys accused of the New Year Eve's killing of 79-year-old retired nurse Hyacinth Hayden reportedly planned the robbery when they met in jail.

Slain nurse Hyancinth Hayden

Sources close to the investigations told the Jamaica Observer West that Hayden's husband, Ashley, was the minors' intended target.

In another revelation, multiple sources have said that the boys had planned on getting a gun to carry out further criminal activities.

"They met in jail where they planned to get a gun which they say they wanted to use to rob rich people," a source close to the investigation told the Observer West last evening.

Ashey Hayden (left), distraught husband
 of  slain retired nurse Hyancinth, is
comforted by
family friend Chris Jobson yesterday.
 (PHOTOS: LEON JACKSON)

On December 31, Ashley Hayden left the family home around 3:00 pm to purchase a phone card and other items for his wife at a community shop. On his return, about 15 minutes later, he discovered the blood-soaked body of his wife slumped on the kitchen step. Her upper body had multiple stab wounds.

Yesterday, the grief-stricken husband, who has had to seek medical attention since the incident, said one of the accused recently came to him seeking employment.

He surmised that the juvenile did not desire to work, but only wanted to familiarise himself with the property.

"Mi give him something to do, him come one day, him don't come back," the grieving widower told Observer West.

"The boy come and him scrape up round the place, but all this time ah observe him ah observe the place." more