WESTERN BUREAU — The St James police have reportedly intensified their efforts to make a breakthrough in the case of the brutal double murder of a young couple at their home in Cambridge earlier this week.

“We are intensifying our investigations and are carrying out several operations in an effort to make a breakthrough,” Constable Peter Salkey, the Constabulary Communication Network officer for the parish, told the Observer.

But up to yesterday, they still had not established a motive for the murders nor had they taken anyone into custody in connection with the incident.

The bodies of the young couple –Devon Allen, 29, and Karlene Hayles-Allen, 25 — were discovered by their relatives at the couple’s unfinished Bullman residence in the parish shortly after 7:00 am on Tuesday.

The 25 year-old Karlene, a student at the Sam Sharpe Teachers College in Montego Bay, had her throat slashed while her husband, Devon, had a bullet wound to his head.

The husband’s body was found lying face down in a pool of blood on the ground in a front room of the house, while the wife’s body was discovered on its back, in a back room.

Postmortem examinations carried out on the corpses have confirmed that the husband died as a result of the gunshot wound he received to the head, and the wife, because of the wound to her neck.