FRIDAY, JUNE
11, 2021
VOLUME 115, No.23
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Police dropped the ball Page 24
‘PARCH NUTS’ SILENCED company of a young lady. The neighbour said it could A YOUNG MAN who made have been that the gunmen national headlines after being hid in some bushes and badly beaten by police when he awaited Jackson on his return. was just a teenager was shot “Me na see when dem come and killed on Friday 4th June, but after me hear the sometime after 8pm. gunshots me see the two man Jemark ‘Parch Nuts’ in hoodie walking calmly away Jackson, 29, was shot dead from the scene,” said the while on his way to his home neighbour. in Coconut Range, Campden An elderly lady who lives a Park. few meters from where His body was discovered a Jackson died said she was short distance from his home. watching TV when the Persons in the community incident took place, but she recalled hearing about 5 to 6 did not know it was Jackson. gunshots and seeing two men “Whenever he pass he does in “hoodies” leaving the scene. shout and call me. The same One of Jackson’s neighbours day he dead he bring some told THE VINCENTIAN that bushes for me to deal with the a few hours before Jackson mosquitoes and I use to was killed, he was seen always tell him to behave leaving his home in the himself. He was nice to me,” by KENVILLE HORNE
said the elderly lady.
No spring chicken Jackson had his fair share of run-ins with the law. He catapulted to national headlines in 2008 after three police officers were charged with beating him into a coma that lasted for seven days. The officers - Constables Osrick James and Hadley Ballantyne, and Corporal Kasankie Quow - were found guilty and fined EC$1,500 each, in 2010. They appealed their convictions to the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal which, in 2011, dismissed the appeals and upheld their convictions. Against much public
condemnation of the Officers’ crimes, the then Commissioner of Police Keith Miller reinstated the officers to their substantive positions. Since the matter of assault by the police officers, Jackson was arrested for a number of burglaries, handling stolen goods and theft. For example, he was a suspect in a recent burglary at Eastern Caribbean Bottlers Inc. in Campden Park. And on the August 10th, 2020, Jackson, Quincy Boyde, 26-year-old labourer of Rillan Hill and Romano Andrews, 29year-old labourer of Clare Valley/Diamond were arrested and charged with the offences of damage to property, attempted burglary, burglary and handling stolen goods, acts committed August 8th, 2020 at Triple S Supermarket and 2-Go Restaurant, Peruvian Vale. Jackson was, up to the time of his death, a key witness in a case in which Glenville Harry of Left: Police prepare to move towards where Jackson’s body lay.
Jemark ‘Parch Nuts’ Jackson moved from being a victim of abuse at the hands of the police, to be a constant feature on the police crime radar. Vermont, and Jerome Ollivierre and Ulric Hanson of Mayreau, are to be tried for murder in connection with the death of Rodney George, a 50year-old security guard of Victoria Village, who died in September, 2018 after being stabbed at his work place in Arnos Vale. When a Court employee was questioned about how Jackson’s death might affect this matter, the person said that it should not since his evidence was already given at a preliminary inquiry. Jackson’s death is listed as the 18th homicide in St. Vincent and the Grenadines this year. Police investigations into Jackson’s death are ongoing.