POLICE in the Westmoreland Division are seeking the public’s assistance in locating Jermaine Roy Brown and Torneil Haughton who were arrested for murder but have absconded bail.

A warrant for their arrest has since been issued by the Westmoreland Circuit Court.

Brown, who is a 30-year-old taxi operator and Haughton, 26, are both from Alma District in Grange Hill, Westmoreland.

Brown is of dark complexion, stout build, sports a dreadlocked hairstyle, has a round face and is about 175 centimetres (five feet nine inches) tall. Haughton is 168 centimetres (five feet six inches) tall, of medium build, dark complexion and is blind in one eye.

Information received from the police is that both men were charged with the murder of Rasheika Clair and Stacy-Ann Kelly who were found dead on August 25, 2008. The girls were reported missing on August 18 of that year. Their bodies were found in a cave at Camp Savannah Mountain in Grange Hill.

Brown and Haughton were booked to appear in the Westmoreland Circuit Court on February 15, 2011.  However, they did not report for court.  They are now considered armed and dangerous and are to turn themselves in to the Savanna-la-Mar Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) by 10:00 am on Thursday.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jermaine Roy Brown and Torneil Haughton is being asked to contact the Savanna-la-Mar Criminal Investigation Branch at 955-2758, Crime Stop at 311, Kingfish at 811, police 119 emergency number or the nearest police station.

No photograph was available of Torneil Haughton.