HIGHGATE, Mary:THE 31-YEAR-OLD man charged with the murder of three children in Kilancholly, St. Mary, on January 28, could be slapped with at least two additional murder charges.
Police crime chief for Area II, Superintendent Wilford Gayle, said that murder accused Jeffrey Perry is being questioned in connection with a double murder that took place in Kilancholly a few years ago.
Superintendent Gayle said that he was not in a position to say how far the investigations have reached but that Perry was being treated as a prime suspect.
COMMITTING CRIMES
The case in question involves the brutal murder of 19-year-old Judith Bowen, a domestic helper and her two-year-old niece Jeanelle Bailey, in Kilancholly on October 30, 2001. Both bodies were found with multiple stab wounds and their throats cut, similar to the manner in which the three children were killed in the district on January 28. Bowen and Bailey were cousins to the three children who were murdered last month.
Sources in Kilancholly said that Perry, who confessed to the killing of 15-year-old Dwayne Davidson, 13-year-old Sue-Ann Gordon and four-year-old Shadece Williams on the morning of January 28, has also reportedly confessed to committing other crimes in the district.
Perry, who is now in custody, was slapped with three murder charges last Wednesday night by the Highgate police for the killing of the three children.
The residents believe that Perry, who was a close friend of the family, had been studying some form of witchcraft which could have led him to commit the crimes.
