According to a report by The Daily Mail, a young London tourist, Sean Patterson, was murdered in Jamaica in the month of July. His father says his son “started to live his life and find himself” in Jamaica.
Sean Patterson’s father says his son is “starting to live his life and find himself” in Jamaica
A 34 year old man from the borough of Kingston, on the island of Jamaica has been pronounced dead. His body was found around midday on New Year’s Day. While the investigation is a work in progress, the Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey has suggested that Patterson was murdered by a gang of drug dealers. The alleged perpetrators were reportedly in possession of a fake gun to protect themselves. The pair were in the Bogue Hills area of the island for a week or so. In the interim, they had the luxury of a posh apartment to themselves. Not only did the pair have a lot of fun, they managed to have a few drinks in the process.
One of the men was a lucky leprechaun, the other was a lucky devil. Patterson was not a jack of all trades, and had spent a fair amount of time in London before his short stint in the motherland. He had made a few friends in the area and had an uncharacteristically good time. They were in the midst of making plans to get hitched later this year. On the eve of the festivities, Patterson got his kinks worked out. This led to some niceties and a few sultry nights for all concerned.
Patterson’s dad, who aptly titled his son Sean, is a recovering alcoholic and his son is the light of his life. The two sexting partners are also engaged in a number of extracurricular activities, notably a number of clubs.
Jamaica’s high murder rate
Jamaica has the highest murder rate in the Caribbean and Latin America. A report by the Inter-American Development Bank says that the monetary cost of crime is about four to five percent of the country’s GDP. The country has a history of using military force in times of disorder.
According to the police, there were 4873 homicides in the years 1998-2002. Some of these were linked to gangs. Most of these killings occurred in Kingston, but a significant number of homicides took place in rural parishes.
In 2013, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a global study on homicide. It found that the average worldwide homicide rate is 6.2 per 100,000 people. Meanwhile, in Jamaica, the homicide rate stood at 46.5 per 100,000 citizens.
The government has blamed gangs for 70 percent of the killings. However, a former commissioner of police, Dr Carl Williams, stated that there are 266 gangs islandwide. He also noted that gangs can draw more people into a conflict because of their groupings.
The high homicide rate is a concern for law enforcement officials. As a result, the police have already introduced social and gang prevention programs. But the homicide rate continues to rise.
Last year, the number of murders in Jamaica reached 777. This is an improvement over the total of 1,647 in 2017. Although the murder rate is down, it remains one of the highest in the world.
While the homicide rate in Jamaica is a problem, the solution is not easy. There are many factors that play a role. One of these is extortion. Gangs in Jamaica depend on extortion and lottery scams. These schemes, in turn, exacerbate violence.
During the past two years, the country has experienced several states of emergency. Some of these have resulted in arbitrary detentions. Others have included accusations of police brutality.
Recently, the Jamaican Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, announced a study on violence. His findings revealed that the country is riven by a “kingpin” strategy, which has led to chaos. Despite the measures taken to curtail gangs, the violence continues.
Cross-dressing Jones was bullied in school
Jim Jones was an outcast in his day, a victim of circumstance and not the school system. He was on the wrong side of the sex spectrum for most of his life, and was even accused of assault by his own family. There is no doubt that he would have a long and successful life had the right people been involved. As a child, he lived in an ill-equipped house in Montego Bay, a city in the Caribbean, where the weather is not forgiving. On his last night on the island, he was accosted by a gang of malefactors and dragged outside. Despite the best efforts of local police officers, the thugs had their way, and Jim was killed in a flurry of bullets. Sadly, the murder remains unsolved to this day. Since then, the family has filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming the district violated their rights and retaliated against their daughter’s wrongful death. This story is a long one, but it’s worth reading up on.
Jim Jones et al may be in the past, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make some kind of future plans for the kinks out of the situation. The best course of action for now is to enlist the services of a law firm that specializes in education and child custody issues.
More details
The murder of a 33-year-old London tourist was allegedly committed by “unknown assailants” as part of a “contract killing,” according to Jamaican police.
Near the pool of his vacation rental in Bogue Hill, St. James, Sean Patterson, a personal trainer from West London, was discovered with gunshot wounds to his upper body and head on Monday about noon.
Our research to date has theorized that the murder was a contract killing that originated in Britain, according to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz Bailey, who is in charge of the crime and security portfolio, in a video statement on Wednesday.
Mr. Bailey continued by stating that Mr. Patterson and a second individual, also from London, had landed in Jamaica on December 29 just before New Year’s Eve. Before moving into the villa in Bogue Hill on New Year’s Day, the duo had spent several days at an apartment.
The commissioner claimed that later on that day, the two British men had gotten together with a third man from Kingston who would be present when Mr. Patterson was shot and killed.
The next day, around noon, Mr. Patterson and the Jamaican man went to the villa’s pool deck. The three men had all stayed at the guest house in different rooms.
The Kingston man claimed that when he heard multiple loud explosions that sounded like gunshots, he had his back turned to Mr. Patterson.
He claimed to have turned around and saw a lone individual shooting Mr. Patterson while wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.
The witness allegedly ran away and hid under some bushes.
Police saw the 33-year-old victim on his back in a “pool of blood” with “what appeared to be gunshot wounds to the upper-body and head” when they arrived on the scene.
There is no proof that Mr. Patterson was robbed, Mr. Bailey continued.
In his final statement, the commissioner noted that the local authorities were cooperating with their international colleagues, notably the UK police, and had made “substantial progress” in the investigation.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) acknowledged on Tuesday that it was “helping the family of a British citizen who died in Jamaica and are in communication with the local authorities” at the time to the PA news agency.
The Daily Mail was informed by the mother of Mr. Patterson that her son had made his first trip to the nation and had come to the Caribbean island to meet family.
According to Lesley Wright of Shepherds Bush in west London, the 33-year-old had relations on his father’s side in Jamaica but had never had the chance to meet them before being shot and died.
The local police have told me that Sean was at a huge party over the New Year and was sitting by a pool talking to pals, said Mrs. Wright, 63.
When someone tugged on Sean’s arm, he brushed it off, but then four gunshots were fired, striking Sean in the upper torso.
She said, “I lost my kid. No mother ought to be required to bury her kid.
He had barely spent two days in Jamaica, where he had traveled with my godson and one of my closest friends.
His mother continued by stating that her son was “the loveliest, sweetest boy and the kindest, most happy-go-lucky man” and that she was baffled as to why he was killed because he was not “the arguing type.”
According to Mrs. Wright, “We pray for justice and that the person who killed my son is taken off the street where they can’t harm anyone else and devastate another family.”
According to the Mail, the 33-year-old was scheduled to wed his longtime partner in 2023.
