KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Opposition Parliamentarian Phillip Paulwell is “hoping that each one who had been concerned [in the kidnapping and murder of his 10-month-old daughter and her mother] are delivered to justice and punished to the fullest extent of the regulation.”
In a press release issued on Saturday, Paulwell mentioned nothing might have ready him for the occasions that unfolded since final week Thursday when police right here charged Leoda Bradshaw, a US Navy petty officer with whom Paulwell sired a now eight-year-old baby, together with three different males within the abduction and homicide of his daughter Sarayah and her mom, Toshyna Patterson.
“The previous few weeks have been extraordinarily troublesome for me as I grappled with the kidnapping of my daughter and her mom,” the Member of Parliament for Kingston East and Port Royal mentioned in a press release.
“I’m heartbroken that the worst has occurred,” he mentioned, including that he had “prayed unceasingly” for his or her protected return.
“That anybody might homicide a mom and an harmless child is unimaginable, and my coronary heart is heavy with unhappiness,” he mentioned.
“I’m praying for Toshyna’s household, who I do know are experiencing the insufferable grief and ache of dropping their beloved daughter and granddaughter.
“As a human being, father, lawyer, and legislator, I hope all concerned are delivered to justice and punished to the fullest extent of the regulation.”
Paulwell mentioned he has been in fixed dialogue with the police and has cooperated totally with the investigation.
“I can not touch upon the investigations nor issues earlier than the court docket, however I want to thank the police for his or her tireless work.
He expressed gratitude to the “many Jamaicans” who’ve been beneficiant of their prayers and their “form and considerate expressions of affection, help, and solidarity” for him and his household.
Final Friday, Bradshaw appeared within the Supreme Courtroom after being charged with two counts of conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of conspiracy to homicide, two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of capital homicide.
In line with the Crown, Bradshaw, who lives abroad, after studying concerning the existence of Paulwell’s 10-month-old daughter on September 5, 2023, contacted Patterson on Fb and instructed her she was Paulwell’s partner and needed a DNA take a look at finished on the newborn.
She traveled to Jamaica the subsequent day, September 6, 2023, “for the only real function of killing Toshyna Patterson and the younger baby she shared along with her partner,” the Crown alleged.
The Crown additionally alleged that Bradshaw, by way of her cousin and co-accused Roland Balfour, contracted males to kidnap and homicide Patterson and Sarayah.
Balfour has been charged with two counts of accent earlier than the very fact of kidnapping and two counts of accent earlier than the very fact of homicide.
Richard Brown, one other accused, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy to homicide, two counts of conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of homicide.
Roshane Miller, the third man accused on this matter, has been charged with two counts of accent earlier than kidnapping and two counts of accent earlier than homicide.
Each Brown and Miller are to seem earlier than the court docket later this month.
In line with prosecutors, Bradshaw met with Miller and Brown to rearrange for the kidnappings and murders. The unique plan was to kidnap Patterson and the newborn from their dwelling.
Prosecutors instructed the court docket that Bradshaw paid the lads the equal of J$100,000 in United States foreign money because the down fee for the execution of the crime. The rest of the funds ($400,000) was to be paid after the completion of the deal.
Prosecutors mentioned that on Saturday, September 9, Bradshaw “positioned a number of calls and conversed with Patterson, to lure her away from her premises,” arriving at Patterson’s dwelling at roughly 7:00 am that day.
“Evidentiary materials reveals Patterson exiting her premises and coming into an SUV parked at her gate, alongside along with her child. Evidentiary materials reveals that she remained on this automobile for over quarter-hour. The automobile then drove off and left the realm at roughly 7:22 am. Patterson and Sarayah by no means exited the automobile earlier than it left,” the prosecutor instructed presiding Supreme Courtroom choose Justice Simone Wolfe-Reece on Friday.
The Crown’s case is that Bradshaw took Patterson to Stony Hill within the neighborhood of the house the place she, Bradshaw, was staying and handed over Patterson and her younger baby to Brown and different people but to be apprehended. “After this, Patterson and her younger baby had been taken to Warieka Hills the place they had been shot and killed and their our bodies burned,” the court docket was instructed.
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