THE ex-boyfriend of slain York Castle High School student Nisa Grant was yesterday held by the police for questioning in connection with the death of the 16-year-old.

Police said he was likely to be charged today. “We are at this time waiting on the young man to get an attorney before he is charged,” a spokesman for the St Ann police said.

The youth, a 17-year-old student of the Brown’s Town Community College in St Ann, had reported to the police Thursday evening that he was in the girl’s company when they were attacked by a man who dragged his female companion into an unfinished building on Mount Christopher Drive in Brown’s Town. Police later found Nisa’s body in the building with several stab wounds and the throat slashed.

It was alleged yesterday that last December Nisa broke off the relationship she had with the accused, who graduated from York Castle High last year.

The police, however, declined to divulge information about the case, in what was said to be a teenage love relationship gone sour.

“We are unable to speak at length about the case at this time, but the information initially given by the young man seems contrary to other reports,” investigating officer Detective Sergeant Michael Thomas told the Observer.

Yesterday, officials at York Castle High School expressed shock at the way one of their students met her death.

Teachers at the St Ann school described Nisa as hard-working and a student who showed a willingness to learn.

In the meantime, the police said officers at the Brown’s Town station have been on alert as angry residents of Mount Edgecombe in Runaway Bay, St Ann, where both the victim and accused resided, have been turning up at the station, demanding that the accused be turned over to them.

“Is nine subjects the boy graduated from high school with; he was a former student of York Castle, he graduated last year.

He passed all his subjects in ranges one and two so him not dunce,” said one upset resident who requested anonymity.