MONTEGO BAY, St James – Up to late last night senior investigators were probing the grisly deaths of a three-month-old girl, her 14-year-old sister and their 43-year-old mother whose bodies were found in a hotel room in this city yesterday morning.

News of the deaths of Carol Waldron, a nurse, and her two daughters – Kadjah, 3 months old, and Ashley Waldron, 14 – shocked residents of Grange Hill in Westmoreland, where the three lived with Waldron’s parents, James and Lena Clayton.

Detectives said they found a suicide note in the hotel room with the bodies, and unconfirmed reports said Waldron, who was having marital difficulties, injected her children with a lethal substance before taking her life.

According to the Constabulary Communication Network liaison officer for St James, Corporal Camille Tracy, at about 6:00 am yesterday a security guard employed to the hotel heard strange sounds coming from one of the rooms on the property.

He informed another staff member who broke a glass door on the balcony to gain entry to the room where they saw the bodies.

They called the police, who found a suicide note and a number of syringes in the room.

The three were pronounced dead on location by a medical doctor.

When the Sunday Observer went to Grange Hill, the Claytons’ house, their yard and the street on which they live were packed with shocked residents.

“Me sure say a no me mek she kill herself, is not her mother mek she kill herself,” James Clayton said as he tried unsuccessfully to hold back the tears. “Me grow me children one of the best. Me no say me a the best, but me grow them among the best.”

“Me always proud of them,” he continued. “Up to yesterday (Friday) me proud of Carol. I would not expect her to do a thing like that. Everytime I look at the picture of my granddaughter (Ashley) she is so innocent. She shouldn’t have killed her.”

The grief-stricken father explained that his son-in-law, an ex-soldier, lived with them at the Grange Hill home up to last week, but moved out of the home after breaking up with his daughter.

He said that his daughter, her husband and Kadjah were abroad two weeks ago, when his son-in-law sent a message stating that he wanted to live his own life but Carol wouldn’t leave him alone.

“Him say if a fire haffi bun it haffi bun, and if blood haffi run it haffi run. So me say no blood naw run inna my place,” an obviously hurt Clayton related.

The shaken couple pointed to a hole in the kitchen which they claimed was created by a bullet from their son-in-law’s licensed firearm during one of several quarrels they said he had with their daughter.

The Claytons said that on Friday evening Carol drove her mother’s car to pick up her daughter from school in Savanna-la-Mar then drove to Montego Bay and booked into the hotel where their bodies were found.