Murder accused to see psychiatrist

KIRK WILSON, a 22-year-old alleged drug addict accused of stabbing to death a five-year-old girl while on her way to school, was ordered remanded in custody for psychiatric evaluation when he appeared in court on Monday.

The accused man who was assigned legal aid by Resident Magistrate Eleanor Honeywell, is to return to answer his murder charge in the Corporate Area RM Court at Half-Way Tree on July 17.

On June 19, Akera Dockery was on her way to Faith Basic School when she was attacked and stabbed nine times. She was buried at Dovecot Memorial Park on Sunday.

It is alleged that the Tuesday morning, Akera, who lived with her parents on Fiddes Avenue in Whitfield Town, St. Andrew, was taken to school by a taxi driver, who let her off a few blocks from the school in the presence of a bigger girl.

Reports are that both girls were walking to school when the older one became terrified when she saw a man with a knife and ran off. Young Akera did not get a chance to run. Despite her screaming, her killer plunged the knife in her neck over several times. She was pronounced dead at hospital.

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