Cop heard colleague confessing to killing 14-year-old girl
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A police office testified on Tuesday of hearing Constable Rushon Hamilton telling at least two cellmates at the Central Police Station that he killed 14-year-old Jhaneel Goulbourne.
The witness, Constable Newton Bentley, who was being held on a charge of carnal abuse at the Central Police Station, said he heard Hamilton on two separate occasions confessing to the men.
One of those men has already given evidence in the trial before the Home Circuit.
According to Bentley, he was in the cell in October 2008 when he heard Hamilton telling an “Indian man” about the killing.
“Mi tek de pickney out to the sea and kill har and throw har off,” Bentley told the court that Hamilton said. “There was something about a block — about using a block to sink her,” he added.
Bentley said that some time after he overheard Hamilton confessing to another cellmate that he murdered the girl at sea and dumped her body.
He said also that he heard Hamilton telling the cellmate that his girlfriend had washed his bloody clothes after “him kill the pickney” and that the girlfriend “will not let him down”.
Bentley’s evidence is in line with what a witness testified last week about Hamilton’s alleged confession of killing the girl.
Goulbourne was kidnapped at the gate of her Harbour View, St Andrew in 2008. The teen disappeared following a complaint to the police, which led to Hamilton being charged with carnal abuse.