The Second District Court has remanded a 16-year-old former Boys Training Centre (BTC) ward to Bordelais Correctional Facility (BCF), on a charge of causing the death of a 76-year-old man.
The accused, who has not been officially identified because he is considered a juvenile, appeared before the court on Wednesday.
Police arrested the teenager after Dunstan Butcher, alias ‘Jahrock‘ succumbed following a physical assault at Darnley Alexander Street, Soufriere on Sunday, November 3, 2024.
An autopsy on Tuesday found that the death was due to hemorrhagic shock secondary to blunt-force trauma caused by a stone.
The deceased’s daughter, Loukie Albert, told St. Lucia Times she heard her father sustained a ‘brutal’ blow to the neck, resulting in internal bleeding.
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Waiting to hear from the ‘enablers of the perpetrators’, so called ‘human rights lawyers’, on why the accused should be granted bail, be allowed to go home, and why we should just forgive and forget, since it’s not his fault! It’s the fault of his community, his parents, his friends, his school, everyone else but not him!
What is wrong with the young boys in st Lucia where are their mothers and fathers its like all the young people are going astray…
He was old enough to start misbehaving hence he was at BTC, he was old enough to brutally murder but he isn’t old enough to have his name mentioned. What bull shit is this. There should be no bail for these devils. What the he’ll is wrong with our laws. Apart from failed justice systems you have MARY FRANCIS.
LET HIM COME OUT ON BAIL, AN EYE FOR AN EYE. THATS WHAT LIFE SHOULD BE. HERE’S A COUNTRY FULL OF RASTAS TELLING PEOPLE HAILE SELASSIE IS GOD. WHY SHOULD A BOY TAKE THE PRECIOUS LIFE OF JAH ROCK WHO WAS INTO RASTAFARIANISM? WHAT DID THE RASTAFARIAN MOVEMENT HAVE PROPOSED IN REGARDS TO THIS TRAGIC DEATH? WHO’S THIS BOY MOTHER? I DO BELIEVE THAT, THE WILL BE BETTER SECURED AT BORDELAIS THAN TO RELEASE HIM ON BAIL. THATS ALL IVE GOT SAY FOR THE DEATH OF OUR BELOVED JAH ROCK. WE ARE WAITING FOR HIM. SALOP LA ! RUN YOU CAN’T HIDE.