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FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 01, 2017
VOLUME 111, No.35
PREGNANT MOTHER CHARGED WITH SONÊS MURDER
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that the boy was living at Park Hill with his father, Leran Jack Sr., but DIANA CAINE, A 23-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, because his father found employment seven months pregnant, who has been with the road-cleaning project which charged with the murder of her 3-yearstarted earlier this month, he took his old son, LJ Leran Jack Jr, could not son to stay with his (sons) mother at prevent the tears from flowing as she South Rivers. was escorted to a police vehicle to be The police have confirmed that a taken away, following her brief post mortem examination revealed appearance at the Kingstown that the child died from extensive Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. head injuries caused by blunt trauma. Reports are that around 4 p.m. Caine was arrested and charged August 24, the boy, the second of with murder, following investigations Caine’s three children, was found lying led by detective Corporal 331 Wilma on the floor of the kitchen of a house Black, attached to the Georgetown at South Rivers, where he was staying Police Station. with his mother, stepfather and two Clad in green t-shirt, blue jeans and sisters, ages one and five. slippers, Caine, who was not A police report of August 30, said represented by a lawyer, was taken that he was found with an injury to before Senior Magistrate Bertie his head. Pompey at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Diana Caine on her way to remand. September 4 and transferred to the He was taken to the South Rivers Court on Wednesday. She was not Serious Offences Court. Medical Clinic where he was required to plead and was remanded. The child’s death, which sent shock pronounced dead on arrival. The matter was adjourned to waves across the country, came in the THE VINCENTIAN understands
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wake of a series of recent domesticrelated incidents of violence here. LJ Jack’s death is listed as this country’s 22nd homicide for the year.
MOTHER OF FOUR SHOT IN VERMONT in the same area. In an interview with THE A CHAUNCEY WOMAN IS currently VINCENTIAN from her hospital bed, at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital Lawrence, a domestic servant, said, I’m nursing gunshot injuries after being not one to interfere with people.” shot at her shop, located in the rugged She, however, said that she believed terrain of Francois, Vermont. she was shot because of a dispute she Merlene Edwards-Lawrence, a had with a woman in the community. mother of four, was shot, reportedly, by Recounting what transpired during a lone gunman the first attempt on her life, Lawrence related that on Monday evening a man Merlene Edwards- around 7:15 pm Lawrence, warded last Tuesday night, came to the shop and ordered a single Empire cigarette. She recognized the at the Milton Cato one day after she Memorial Hospital, escaped injury and man and was surprised, she said, that he chose to shop at her business, since after being shot at possibly death, when a gunman he had never come to her shop before. her place of opened fire on her She observed him looking around the business, Vermont. by KENVILLE HORNE
area in a rather suspicious manner. “The way how he watching around the place, I say he up to something, because he never come here before,” she said. Her husband eventually attended to the man and he left. Lawrence recalled that the guy was wearing a red hat, a black t-shirt with red around the collar, a blue threequarter pants and black shoes. Later that evening, while she was still in the shop, five shots were fired into her business place. She escaped without injuries and the gunman fled.
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