BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com Saturday, November 16, 2019
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| The house in Lauriston, St Catherine, where a mother and daughter were brutally murdered in July 2011 |
IN the aftermath of the gruesome murder of 18-year-old Joeith Lynch and her mother Charmaine Rattray in Lauriston, St Catherine, in July of 2011, residents in the area clammed up, refusing to share information with detectives probing the incident – at least not on the spot.
Rattray and her daughter were on the night of July 19 fatally chopped and shot, then beheaded by a group of about eight men, five of whom were later arrested and charged. Three of the men, Adrian Campbell, Roshane Goldson, and Fabian Smith, have since pleaded guilty to non-capital murder and are to be sentenced on December 11, while two, Sanja Ducally and Kemar Riley, have pleaded not guilty to murder and are standing trial.
Yesterday, a witness, who was recalled to the stand by the prosecution, said on the morning of July 20, after receiving a call, he went to the crime scene and saw the headless bodies of the women. He said a senior crime technician took photographs and removed items from the scene, including spent casings. The witness said he then accompanied the vehicle transporting the bodies of the women to Spanish Town Hospital, where their deaths were confirmed, and then to the funeral home where they were to be stored. He then returned to the bloody house at 46 Berry Drive to continue investigations.
“I interviewed several persons, [but] most of the people I spoke to that day were very tight-lipped about giving information to the police. As such arrangements were made to have interviews done elsewhere,” the witness told the court. He said, days later, acting on information given by a former suspect now turned crown witness, and murder accused Adrian Campbell, further discoveries were made. more
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