Glenroy Sinclair and Stephanie Coleman, Gleaner Reporters
The search for six-year-old Jihad George McCool ended yesterday, after a 39-year-old deportee led a team of senior investigators to a shallow grave in Rosemount, St. Mary, where the child had been buried since Sunday.
Reports are that the deportee, who turned himself over to the police on Monday, was accompanied to the shallow grave by the police, in the presence of
his attorney, who observed detectives processing the scene yesterday.
"We arrived here about 6:00 p.m.," Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause told The Gleaner last night. Up to 7:30 p.m. the police were still awaiting the arrival of the pathologist to conduct an on-the-spot autopsy.
INTENSIVE INTERROGATION
ACP Gause, who declined to say much on the ongoing investigation, stressed that the deportee took the police to the shallow grave after several hours of intensive interrogation by a panel of senior detectives at the CIB Headquarters, downtown Kingston yesterday. Among them were Superintendent Wrenford Robinson and Deputy Superintendents Cornwall 'Bigga' Ford and Carlos Bell.
The gesture by the deportee came less than 24 hours after his house in Morant Bay, St. Thomas, was razed by persons set on avenging the death of the five family members who were brutally killed last Sunday in Prospect, St. Thomas. The police were unable to say if the child was murdered in St. Thomas and transported to St. Mary.
'SHE WAS STRANGLED'
"She was not stabbed or shot, she was strangled. Her eyes and tongue protruded," said an officer who was at the scene.
When the police took in the deportee on Monday, an angry mob swooped down on the Morant Bay Police Station, screaming and demanding that the police hand him over to them so they could exact justice. The police have since requested the assistance of the Department of Correctional Services to house him.
The victims of last Sunday's bloody incident were Patrice Martin-McCool, Sean Chin Jnr., nine, Marshall George McCool, three, Jesse O'Gilvie, nine, and 40 year-old, Terry-Ann Mohammed. They were found with their throats slashed.
Information reaching The Gleaner is that the deportee, who sports a Rover motor car and operates a bar in the Morant Bay area, has since confirmed that the killings were centred around a drug deal.
The situation has become so tense that the father of two of the children, who was recently incarcerated on drug charges, had to be moved from a low-security penal facility to a maximum-security prison to ensure his safety.
