St Philip man charged with wife’s murder

A 74-year-old man has been charged with murdering his wife earlier this month.

Whitfield Rudolph Thomas, of Emerald Park West, Saint Philip, is scheduled to appear before Magistrate Joyann Clarke in the District ‘C’ Magistrates’ Court today, charged with killing Daphne Thomas on September 20.

The 52-year-old woman, a prison officer, was found dead at home after police responded to a report of an altercation between a man and a woman.