By Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter
Flying Squad detectives watch as a member of the public assists the police to retrieve several human skulls from a pit in the Jacques Road community and pack them in a cardboard box yesterday. A total of five skulls, plus human remains, were found in pits between Jacques Road and nearby Fourth Avenue, Kingston.- Ian Allen/Staff Photographer
FIVE HUMAN skulls and other skeletal remains were taken from two pits in the Fourth Avenue and Jacques Road communities of East Kingston yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday's find came less than 24 hours after members of the police force fished out two bodies from a pit on Fourth Avenue. The bodies were identified as those of Yvonne Beaumont-Walters, the former wife of People's National Party (PNP) Deputy General Secretary, Linton Walters; and Mrs. Walters' nephew, Jeffery Beaumont. The two were abducted Friday night, killed and dumped in the 30-foot deep pit.
Apart from the five human skulls, the police also stumbled on to a headless corpse in an advanced state of decomposition. A pair of men's shoes and two different women's shoes were also found in the pit.
"This appears to be a dumping ground where kidnapped people are killed and dumped," said Assistant Commissioner Osbourne Dyer.
According to the police, evidence at the scene suggested the same person(s) using the pit in Jacques Road could also be using the Fourth Street pit located at an abandoned housing scheme in the area.
It took a stout-hearted effort of a civilian who was sent down on a ladder in the pit with a flash light, to assist the police in retrieving the skulls and human remains. This was after several attempts by personnel from the National Water Commission (NWC) and Fire Department proved ineffective.
The police however had to rely on both agencies to carry out the excavations.
The three skulls found in the pit behind the Jacques Road Community Centre were discovered on Monday but the lack of proper equipment and fading light prevented the police from taking them out.
The police say the remains will now undergo forensic investigations to establish the gender, time and cause of death and, if possible, the identities.
In the case of Mrs. Walters and her nephew, the police said they were following a number of leads and say they have reason to believe persons from the Grants Pen and Jacques Road communities were the perpetrators.
