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When I come on here and talk angry at times, it’s crap like this that makes me angry!! Is there no longer a properly functioning justice system in Jamaica???
You know what, maybe those on this forum who advocate for a heavily armed society are right!! In fact, I’m beginning to think that arming every adult is probably Jamaica’s only remaining hope. Who is there to protect this poor woman now? (And this is clearly not the fault of the police, as they did their job by arresting the animal!)
Hunted!
Woman says ex who stabbed and left her for dead is back again
By KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
POLICE are wanting to question a man on a suspended sentence who it is reported has been harassing the woman he attacked and stabbed 144 times in 2007.
The cops say they received reports that the man, Jermaine Beckford, last week visited the home of his ex common-law wife and later drove her down while she was at a bus stop going to work.
"We have received the reports and have visited the family of this man and have issued a warning and also instruction that we want to interview him in relation to these reports," Sergeant Rennick Fairweather at the Waterford Police Station told the Observer.
Beckford was convicted in 2008 on charges stemming from the 2007 attack where he beat and inflicted 144 stab wounds across the head and upper body of Oneka Grant, 27, the mother of his child. He was slapped with a three year suspended sentence for that incident.
The police said they have also made contact with Grant, and have assured her that the police would be closely monitoring the matter.
Meanwhile, a shaken Grant told the Observer that she was again living in fear.
"Ah can't believe it. Is just last week I was at my home when he came there in a vehicle and left," Grant said.
The frightened mother said a few hours later the same man drove her down in a car while she was heading to the bus stop to go to work.
"Oh God to see that I went through all of that I thought that part of my life was over, now here I am again," she said, almost in tears.
Grant also had a bone of contention with the court over the case.
"Last week Thursday I went to report the matter and was told to go to the court for a restraining order," she said.
She explained that she has gone to the courts twice to do as instructed and twice she has been told to wait long hours and then to return the following day.
"Right now I am in my house, I am in fear for my life. I am afraid to leave my house," Grant said.
She said she has now returned to school trying to improve her life but still cannot use one of her hands as the nerves are still damaged. Her fingers were almost severed in the attack.
Beckford pleaded guilty in court to charges of unlawful wounding.
You know what, maybe those on this forum who advocate for a heavily armed society are right!! In fact, I’m beginning to think that arming every adult is probably Jamaica’s only remaining hope. Who is there to protect this poor woman now? (And this is clearly not the fault of the police, as they did their job by arresting the animal!)
Hunted!
Woman says ex who stabbed and left her for dead is back again
By KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
POLICE are wanting to question a man on a suspended sentence who it is reported has been harassing the woman he attacked and stabbed 144 times in 2007.
The cops say they received reports that the man, Jermaine Beckford, last week visited the home of his ex common-law wife and later drove her down while she was at a bus stop going to work.
"We have received the reports and have visited the family of this man and have issued a warning and also instruction that we want to interview him in relation to these reports," Sergeant Rennick Fairweather at the Waterford Police Station told the Observer.
Beckford was convicted in 2008 on charges stemming from the 2007 attack where he beat and inflicted 144 stab wounds across the head and upper body of Oneka Grant, 27, the mother of his child. He was slapped with a three year suspended sentence for that incident.
The police said they have also made contact with Grant, and have assured her that the police would be closely monitoring the matter.
Meanwhile, a shaken Grant told the Observer that she was again living in fear.
"Ah can't believe it. Is just last week I was at my home when he came there in a vehicle and left," Grant said.
The frightened mother said a few hours later the same man drove her down in a car while she was heading to the bus stop to go to work.
"Oh God to see that I went through all of that I thought that part of my life was over, now here I am again," she said, almost in tears.
Grant also had a bone of contention with the court over the case.
"Last week Thursday I went to report the matter and was told to go to the court for a restraining order," she said.
She explained that she has gone to the courts twice to do as instructed and twice she has been told to wait long hours and then to return the following day.
"Right now I am in my house, I am in fear for my life. I am afraid to leave my house," Grant said.
She said she has now returned to school trying to improve her life but still cannot use one of her hands as the nerves are still damaged. Her fingers were almost severed in the attack.
Beckford pleaded guilty in court to charges of unlawful wounding.
I see. So the concern here is not with the plight of the poor, traumatized woman who was the victim two things: (a) a horrific attack, and (b) an obvious failure to achieve real justice from the (third) branch of government which is specifically responsible for the disbursement of justice?! 
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