Tashieka Mair, Gleaner WriterWESTERN BUREAU:
THREE MEN, implicated in the July 4 brutal murder of five persons in Norwood, St James, were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
The trio, said to be members of the infamous Stone Crusher Gang, is identified as, 22-year-old Adrian 'Banga' Lofters; 20-year-old Lenford 'Bungie' Brown; and Andrew 'Blacka Shine' Cox, 18, all of Hendon, Norwood addresses. They were remanded in custody until August 18. They were also instructed by Resident Magistrate Carolyn Tai to settle legal
representation for the court hearing.
TURNED THEMSELVES IN
The men, who had turned themselves in to the police, and who were positively pointed out in an identification parade, are jointly charged with five counts of murder. There was insufficient evidence to charge a fourth suspect, who had also turned himself in.
The court heard that statements and post-mortem reports were still outstanding from the case files.
Police say gunmen shot and killed 43-year-old Patrick Anderson; 29-year-old Natalie Ferguson; 57-year-old Linda Malcolm, her common-law husband; 62-year-old Michael Montaque; and their 20-year-old son, Michael Jr., during separate attacks in Norwood, on July 4. The attackers also torched the houses of Anderson and the Montaques.
