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The late Keith Clarke remembered as family defender
2010-06-10 15:58:50 | (0 Comments)
Deceased businessman Keith Clarke was remembered this morning as a man who was very supportive of the security forces, even though he knew of their failings at the Webster Memorial Church in St. Andrew.
High Court Judge, Justice Lennox Campbell, who eulogised Clarke during a funeral service this morning at the Webster Memorial Church in St. Andrew, said "this is what make it so difficult to accept that he could have died in this manner."
"Keith's death is a paradox to me. I find it difficult to accept that a man so peaceful... could have come to his end in the manner he did," said Campbell, Clarke's boyhood friend.
Keith Clarke - the brother of former government minister Claude Clarke - was shot and killed inside his house in the upscale St Andrew community of East Kirkland Heights on May 27 during a police/military operation to capture accused drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
In a very solemn service that lasted over two hours, Campbell related an eyewitness account from Clarke's daughter, Brittany who said he father was killed trying to protect she and her mother.
"'He died like a hero...he died trying to protect mommy and I,'" he quoted her as saying.
Pastor of Ridgement United Church, the reverend Oliver Daley, who delivered the sermon, said "this day is about a society in search of its soul."
2010-06-10 15:58:50 | (0 Comments)
Deceased businessman Keith Clarke was remembered this morning as a man who was very supportive of the security forces, even though he knew of their failings at the Webster Memorial Church in St. Andrew.
High Court Judge, Justice Lennox Campbell, who eulogised Clarke during a funeral service this morning at the Webster Memorial Church in St. Andrew, said "this is what make it so difficult to accept that he could have died in this manner."
"Keith's death is a paradox to me. I find it difficult to accept that a man so peaceful... could have come to his end in the manner he did," said Campbell, Clarke's boyhood friend.
Keith Clarke - the brother of former government minister Claude Clarke - was shot and killed inside his house in the upscale St Andrew community of East Kirkland Heights on May 27 during a police/military operation to capture accused drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
In a very solemn service that lasted over two hours, Campbell related an eyewitness account from Clarke's daughter, Brittany who said he father was killed trying to protect she and her mother.
"'He died like a hero...he died trying to protect mommy and I,'" he quoted her as saying.
Pastor of Ridgement United Church, the reverend Oliver Daley, who delivered the sermon, said "this day is about a society in search of its soul."
