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‘We only meant to rob him’: Man admits murder in Thyme Bottom home invasion

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Having played a role in a botched robbery, Stephen Orlando Archer on Monday pleaded guilty to non-capital murder.

Archer, 49, also known as Yank of Deighton Road, St Michael, had been jointly charged with the July 20, 2012 murder of Wayne Pilgrim, who was shot at his home in Thyme Bottom, Christ Church.

When he appeared in the No.2 Supreme Court before Justice Randal Worrell, Senior Crown Counsel Olivia Davis, who appeared on behalf of the Crown, accepted the non-capital murder plea.

The court heard that Pilgrim and his girlfriend were about to leave home around 8:40 that July night when someone shouted for him by his nickname, identifying himself.

When he opened the door, a man asked him for help as his car had run out of gas.

When Pilgrim turned to go for his keys, a second man rushed into the house with a gun, aimed it at him and demanded weed, money and gold.

A third man then came and pointed the gun at the girlfriend and demanded money. The attackers then taped the couple’s hands with duct tape while one of the men tied Pilgrim’s feet with a laptop cord.

The men searched the house while continually asking Pilgrim to disclose where the drugs were.

One man pointed a gun at his girlfriend as she lay on the ground, telling Pilgrim that if he tried anything funny he would shoot her. That man also kicked her and put his foot on her face.

The men then covered the couple’s head with pillows while continuing to threaten and question them about the items.

The woman was taken to the bedroom by one of the men who sexually assaulted her with the gun.

After searching the house one of the men shot Pilgrim in the head before the trio escaped.

Archer was identified as one of the men.

Police were summoned and Pilgrim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Acting on a tip, police saw Archer two days later driving a vehicle along Culloden Road, St Michael.

He was pursued and eventually apprehended.

A search of the vehicle and his person turned up items belonging to the deceased man, including money, a camera and a cellphone.

In a subsequent statement to police, Archer said the plan was only to rob Pilgrim.

“We were only supposed to rob the man,” he said in a statement. He identified the two other assailants and the gunman who shot Pilgrim. Their names were withheld for legal reasons.

Archer maintained he was not the person who pulled the trigger and killed Smith.

He also denied sexually assaulting the female during the home invasion.

Pathologist Dr David Gaskin, who performed the post mortem on Pilgrim’s body, determined that death was caused by a gunshot injury to the head. There was an 8-millimetre entry wound to the left side of the head where the bullet penetrated the left temporal lobe and travelled to the right temporal region of the brain, the court heard.

Justice Randall Worrell adjourned the case until January 18, 2022.

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