MAY PEN, Clarendon:
A DOUBLE murder yesterday orphaned two children, and left the residents of the community of Rosewell in Clarendon paralysed by fear.
Yesterday, the bodies of Paul 'Dave' Howell, a vendor, and his wife, Yanique, a.k.a. 'Dimple', were found by relatives in a pool of blood at their one-room board house.
According to reports, the two were at home with their two children, asleep in their beds, when gunmen kicked open a door and shot them.
SHOCKED
Candece Howell, a sister of the murdered man, said that she was at her home in Lionel Town when one of the children phoned to relate the incident. She said she is still in awe as to who would want to kill her brother and his wife.
As news of the double murder spread throughout the community which is located near to Sandy Bay, scores of persons gathered at the scene to try to get a view of the bodies of their neighbours who they described as "peaceful people who were never known to be in conflict with anyone".
Some made passionate pleas for Prime Minister P.J. Patterson to resume hanging before he demits office next year. The residents in their plea to the Prime Minister made it clear that they are tired of the constant murders that are committed across the island on a daily basis.
One resident who said that she and the couple attended a Seventh-day Adventist Church in the area, described the couple "as good, clean and honest individuals who did not deserve such a fate".
