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The Causwell murder case is a good example of how differently the media and the justice system in Jamaica treat perpetrators of major crimes when they come from the country's elite. The scion of a big business family, you will look in vain for images of the murderer in either of the country's two newspapers. Whenever the case was reported in the newspapers, the image of a gavel was used as a placeholder where normally you would have seen photographs of the accused.
Both newspapers freely used images of the young and attractive victim, who at one time was in a relationship with Causwell. The relationship was an abusive one, and Nadia Mitchell eventually left Causwell, unable to take the routine battering he meted out. Her young daughter, Imani Prendergast, testified to the brutality of the beatings and the trauma of watching her mother severely abused.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...-causwell-case
Both newspapers freely used images of the young and attractive victim, who at one time was in a relationship with Causwell. The relationship was an abusive one, and Nadia Mitchell eventually left Causwell, unable to take the routine battering he meted out. Her young daughter, Imani Prendergast, testified to the brutality of the beatings and the trauma of watching her mother severely abused.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...-causwell-case