Household and buddies of Toshyna Patterson and her 10 month-old daughter Sarayah Paulwell, who can be the kid of Jamaican lawmaker Phillip Paulwell, held a memorial for the mom and daughter pair on Saturday, months after they have been kidnapped in September.
Scores of individuals gathered on the Jamaica Restoration Breakthrough PHD Ministries in Portmore, St. Catherine, to honor the slain pair.
Twenty-seven-year-old Patterson was remembered as a loving, caring mom and a sort pal.
Patterson was a previous pupil of the Rock Corridor Fundamental Faculty, Rock Corridor All-Age, and Jonathan Grant Excessive Faculty. She additionally attended the Nationwide Academy and obtained a diploma in enterprise administration earlier than pursuing research at The UWI, Mona.
She founder a pest management firm, ChemPest Firm Restricted, in 2019, which she ran up till she and her daughter have been killed.
Her daughter Sarayah was described as particular and jovial. The household additionally expressed thanks for the overwhelming assist it has obtained.
Patterson and Sarayah have been kidnapped outdoors their St. Andrew house on September 9, then taken to a piece of East Kingston, the place they have been killed and their our bodies burnt.
Accused face the courtroom
4 folks have been charged in relation to the kidnapping and subsequent homicide of the mom and daughter.
Leoda Bradshaw, a former accomplice of Phillip Paulwell, and her cousin Roland Balfour have been charged with homicide and different offences. They’ve been remanded till March 6, 2024.
The opposite two males that have been implicated within the double homicide have been sentenced final month.
Richard Brown, a 31-year-old graphic artist from Kingston, was sentenced to 30 years in jail on every of the 2 counts of homicide.
He was additionally sentenced to 1 yr and 10 months in jail on every of the 2 counts of kidnapping of the mom and daughter. The sentences are to be served concurrently and he has been ordered to serve 20 years earlier than he’s eligible for parole.
Brown’s confederate, Roshane Miller, was sentenced to serve seven years and 10 months for every rely of accent earlier than the very fact to homicide; two years and 10 months for every rely of conspiracy to kidnap; and one yr and 10 months for misprision of felony. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Learn extra: Paulwell-Patterson accused murderer remanded until March 2024
