Alleged child kidnappers return to court today
MONTEGO BAY, St James – Four persons who allegedly kidnapped a three-year-old boy from the Mount Alvernia Preparatory and Kindergarten School earlier this month are due to return to the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court today.
It is expected that their lawyers will make bail applications.
The four, including an American woman and a 16-year-old boy, were remanded in police custody when they appeared in court for the first time last week Tuesday.
They are 27-year-old counsellor Jenise Regisford of Lot 1087 Blue Hill Avenue, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA and Cornwall Courts, St James; 23-year-old Jonathan Mitchell, a labourer of Rose Mount, St James; 21-year-old barber Trevon Tomlinson of Belize Avenue, Cornwall Courts; and a 16-year-old student of Cornwall Courts.
Regisford is represented by attorney-atlaw Martyn Thomas, Tomlinson by Adrian Dayes and the minor by Albert Morgan, while Mitchell is expected to secure legal representation by today.
They have been charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to extort.
Mitchell, who is alleged to be the mastermind behind the abduction, is said to be a former employee of the child’s parents, who operate businesses in Montego Bay.
On Tuesday afternoon, May 3, the three-year-old child went missing after classes were dismissed. When his mother turned up at the school she was told that a man had already collected her son.
The Montego Bay CIB, led by Deputy Superintendent Derrick Champagnie, later found the child sleeping inside a house in Bailiston, Manchester during the wee hours of the following morning.