July 4, 2013
Police identify man beheaded in St Catherine
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — The police have confirmed the identity of the man who was decapitated in Kitson Town, St Catherine this morning.
He is Kemar Thomas, 27-year-old of Byles District, in the parish.
Police report that at about 3:00am, Thomas’ headless body was found close to his house in the district.
His head was dumped some distance away along the Spanish Town bypass
This is the second beheading in the parish in less than two weeks.
Late June men armed with guns and other weapons, invaded premises at Church Pen, on the outskirts of Old Harbour, and called out 39-year-old Hopeton Cunningham out of his bed. The men then attacked Cunningham, also called ‘Hopey T’, severed his head from his body and left with it in a bag.
