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OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL, Observer staff reporter  
August 26, 2002

Kidnap victims found dead

POLICE yesterday afternoon pulled the decomposing bodies of kidnap victims Yvonne Beaumont-Walters and her cousin, Jeffery Beaumont from a sewage pit in the Mountain View area of the capital.

The 30-foot-deep pit appeared to be a dumping ground for murder victims, as other human remains were also found inside. However, up to late yesterday evening, the police were unable to unearth the remains because, they said, they were lodged too deep.

The Crime Management Unit, apparently acting on a tip, had earlier found another body in a separate pit behind the Jacques Road Community Centre. They were unable to identify that body, given its advanced state of decomposition.

It was after they found the first body that the police unit received information about the location of the other bodies at nearby Fourth Avenue.

The gruesome discovery of the bodies moved Maxine Henry-Wilson, the general-secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP), to tears.

“I can only imagine how much of an ordeal the family must be going through,” said Henry-Wilson, a close friend of Beaumont-Walters, the ex-wife of attorney Linton Walters, who is also the PNP’s deputy general-secretary.

“This seems so random… a senseless act that displays the wanton disregard for human life that exists within our society,” Henry-Wilson added after going through the ordeal of identifying the bodies.

Beaumont-Walters, a 44 year-old lecturer at the Shortwood Teachers’ College, and 29 year-old Jeffery Beaumont, an accountant who lived at East Kirkland Close, were kidnapped last Friday.

The Constabulary Communication Network’s (CCN’s) version of the kidnapping is that it happened at about 11:00 pm at Washington Drive in the Drumblair area of Kingston.

According to the CCN, a white station wagon motor car drove up behind the cousins who were in a sport utility vehicle (SUV) and “a man alighted, entered the SUV and both vehicles sped off”.

Police said they found the SUV, a Nissan XTrail, at about 7:30 am the following day at Thorbourne Avenue off Mountain View Avenue, while the vehicle’s bumper was found on a playing-field at the Jacques Road Community Centre.

A post-mortem conducted at the site indicated that both Beaumont-Walters and Beaumont died of gunshot wounds.

The Rev Al Miller, pastor of the Fellowship Tabernacle Church, where Beaumont was a regular worshipper, was at the scene yesterday and remembered Beaumont as a “stable, decent young man” who often went beyond the call of duty to serve the church.

Miller, obviously shaken at the sight of the bodies, added: “A crime such as this speaks to the serious problems that we face as a nation… it speaks to the social breakdown, the economic breakdown, but most of all to the failures of the justice system and the political process. How many people must die like this? Jamaica needs to wake up…”

Yesterday, the police said they were following leads that suggest that the killers of Beaumont-Walters and her cousin may have been responsible for the August 14 rape and murder of 15 year-old Claudine Robinson in the Grants Pen community.

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