CHRISTOPHER Thomas, the main suspect in the murder of Detective Corporal Dave Daley in February, was remanded in custody when he appeared in the Home Circuit

Court recently.

Thomas, whose case was transferred from the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court late last month, is scheduled to reappear in court on April 27 to settle legal representation.

According to the police, at approximately 9:40 pm on February 12, Daley, 40, was carrying out enquiries in the Duhaney Park area and on reaching Brook Avenue he saw a group of men arguing. Daley allegedly intervened in the argument, during which he was fired on by a group of gunmen.

Daley, the police said, returned the fire and managed to shoot one of the men. However, Daley, a single parent and father of two and a 19-year veteran assigned to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, received several gunshot wounds during the exchange and died on the spot. The men took his service pistol.

Accompanied by his lawyer, Thomas – a Brook Valley, St Andrew resident – surrendered to Major Investigation Taskforce detectives on Saturday, February 17 less than a week after Daley was killed.

He was the third person to turn himself in, following the surrender of his brother Junior to the Kingston Criminal Investigation Bureau and the surrender of another on February 14.

Still at large is Leaford Powell otherwise called ‘Harry Dog’, whom the police suspected to be among the cop killers.

Only a day after Daley’s death, another suspect, Ian ‘Jubba’ Mundell, was shot dead by police in an alleged shoot-out along Waltham Park Road

in Kingston.