KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC -A Excessive Court docket choose has adjourned to Could 26 the case during which 24-year-old Travis Ellis has been charged with the homicide of retired journalist Barbara Gayle.
Gayle, 77, was discovered lifeless at her dwelling within the gated group of Caymanas Nation Membership Property in St Catherine on December 17. Her physique had a number of stab wounds and a gash to her face.
Justice Lorna Shelly-Williams ordered that Ellis be remanded in custody when the matter got here up for listening to on the House Circuit Court docket in Kingston on Friday.
The accused is to be transferred from the Central Village lockup in St Catherine to the Tower Road Grownup Correctional Centre in Kingston, the place he’s to endure a psychiatric analysis.
The prosecution has already indicated that it’ll search the loss of life penalty for the accused, arguing that the homicide was dedicated in furtherance of theft.
The court docket was advised that the case file will not be but accomplished as a number of paperwork are excellent, together with the assertion of the scene of the crime, the assertion of the arresting officer, and a video recording from the scene of the crime.
Former prime minister PJ Patterson mentioned Gayle’s is a “wake-up name” for the nation, and it underscores the pressing want for the nation to reexamine its values and “prioritize these which might be life-sustaining.”
Gayle had made her mark as a court docket reporter with The Gleaner newspaper.
