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WAS IT MURDER? Justin’s family call for police investigation
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The family is still trying to come to terms with the death, trying to make sense of what happened, and wondering what police are doing to investigate 16-year-old Justin Henry’s drowning. Hurt and bewildered, a cousin even suggests murder: “He may have been pushed. He told a boy he was too tired to jump again. Maybe, knowing it was dangerous, and not for him, that’s what he said to get out of it. If he were pushed … well, that’s called murder. ”Where were the police? Aren’t they professional divers? Don’t they have lights and boats and are able to search at night? If they had, they would have found him. It may have been a bit risky, but isn’t that what they are paid for?” Sitting on the front porch of their Rock Hole home on Wednesday, only 24 hours after police found Justin’s body in 39 feet of water, 50 yards off the cliffs at Pedro Castle, his grandmother, sisters and cousins
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could only wonder – and worry – and speculate -- and hope. “We are trying to figure it out, to know what happened,” said grandmother Dorothy, 59, darkhaired, thickset, occupying a corner of the porch at a modest table. Behind her, a gold-ornamented Christmas tree perches on a table, leaving just enough space to enter the doorway to the sitting room and, beyond, Justin’s bedroom. Miss Dorothy has seen more than one death in the family. “It’s 12 years to the day that cousin Robert died. He was killed on a motorbike on the Esterley Tibbetts
Highway. I think he was the first accident on the highway,” she said. Grandson Akim, Justin’s little brother, died 10 years ago at the age of only 5 months, from double pneumonia. “Three daughters and grandmother are all that’s left now,” said a cousin. “There was never a father, and for a boy raised by two women, Justin came out pretty good. He was a sweet child, one of the sweetest.” He was a student in his last year at the Further Education Centre, she said, “and his grades were good”, while working part time at Superior Dry Wall.
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