Four murder accused remanded

Four murder accused, two women and two men, have been remanded to Dodds in connection with the death of Basil Springer, who had been the subject of a missing person’s bulletin.

They are Kyle Chad Rasheem Archer, 26, a well digger, of No 59 Bayview Avenue, Bayville, St Michael; Jamar Darnelle Mottley, 32, a cleaner, of Lower Dayrells Road, Christ Church; Leeann Sasha King, 22, of Scotts Gap, Britton Hill, St Michael; and Shaneka Avonda Clarke, 27, of Scotts Gap, Britton Hill, St Michael.

Both women are unemployed.

They appeared in the St Matthais Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Graveney Bannister this morning charged that they murdered Springer between March 5 and 11. The charge is indictable and as such the accused could not plead.

Springer was reported missing on March 5 and his decomposing body was retrieved from a well at Chelston, Culloden Road , St Michael on March 11.

Archer, King and Mottley were unrepresented while Clarke had Andrew Pilgrim, Q.C., Martie Garnes and Latisha Springer as her lawyers.

They have been remanded until April 17 to make their second appearance in the No. 2 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court.

Kyle Archer and Leeann King are also jointly charged that on February 9, they robbed Stephen Holder of an $80 haversack; a $50 wallet; $194 cash; an $80 baton; an $800 cellular phone ; a $50 shirt and $50 pants while allegedly armed with a firearm.

They are further jointly accused that on January 20, robbed David Herbert of a $33, 000 motor van; a $600 angle grinder; two impact driver and drill sets worth $1,050; a drilling machine worth $750; three multi-metres worth $400 and a screwdriver kit worth $150; two cellular phones worth $360 and $80 cash.

Those two charges are indictable and they were not required to plead. They will also appear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on April 17 on those charges as well.

Archer is separately accused of having possession of two grammes of cannabis worth $10 on March 11. He pleaded guilty to the charge.

“I bought it for $5,” Archer told Magistrate Bannister. But the judicial officer informed him that he had been given a chance for a similar offence on the last occasion.

“I asked you before if you had a drug problem and you said ‘no’. You have gone from bad to worse. You have been given chances but you are not paying attention,” the Magistrate said. Archer was given three months in prison.

He also pleaded guilty to the charge that he entered as a trespasser, the house of Carl Greenidge on December 1, 2019 with intent to commit the arrestable offence of theft.

According to prosecutor Sergeant Edwin Pinder, the homeowner is a 75-year-old man who had left home for a walk.

On his return he found a concrete block missing from his bathroom.

Archer was given three years in prison for that breaking and entering.

“Old people can’t leave home and come back and find their house ransacked and then can’t sleep when the night come,” Magistrate Bannister said as he imposed the sentence. (AH)