SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Police were last night questioning a woman whose common-law-husband's mutilated body was fished yesterday from a pit latrine at Peters Lane in Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine.

The decomposing body of Charles Patterson, a 29-year-old labourer of Peters Lane was discovered by relatives shortly after 8:00 am.
Patterson, who worked at the Jamaica Broilers plant in St Catherine as a chicken catcher, had been missing since Wednesday.

On Thursday, his relatives went to his house and reportedly discovered blood on the toilet seat and a bottle of disinfectant nearby. They reported the matter to the police, who subsequently fished his body from the pit latrine.

Police say the body was partially burnt and had stab wounds all over. The feet were also bound with a piece of rope.
As scores of residents converged on the scene, some women cried openly.
The body was removed to the morgue for post mortem examination.
- TK Whyte

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