WATCH: Mixed feelings for missing Donna-Lee Donaldson’s family
KINGSTON, Jamaica— The family of missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson say they are experiencing mixed feelings after the news emerged that the influencer’s cop boyfriend Noel Maitland has been charged for murder in connection to her disappearance.
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“There is a mixed feeling in the family right now because I know for some they kinda get a relief knowing that he is arrested and charged and for some it’s no closure, its more pain,” said Neil Lugg, Donna-Lee’s uncle.
Lugg told OBSERVER ONLINE that he has found no closure with the news of the arrest as his niece’s body is still missing.
“Like for me it’s no closure it’s more headache, more grief. I guess I just start to really grieve now because I know for a fact that I can go light a candle but I just can’t see a body or remains but I can light a candle because I am positive that mi niece dead,” he added.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Fitz Bailey, made the announcement of Maitland’s arrest at a press conference Tuesday afternoon theorising that Donaldson was murdered between 4:00pm and 8:00pm on Tuesday, July 12.
Bailey added that this theory is supported by forensics and technology.
Lugg said that even with this news Donaldson’s family is distraught because there are still questions about the whereabouts of the influencer’s body.
“Forensic can be there but the body might be somewhere else but at this point the family is very distraught,” Lugg said.
“After I got the news I had to leave off work immediately so one may think it’s a joy, but it’s not joy. If we had body probably we would different but there is no joy in it, for me it’s just headache,” he said. Donaldson, whose disappearance has drawn nationwide attention, was first reported missing to the police on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. She was believed to have gone to spend the night with Constable Maitland before she was reported missing.
According to police reports, on July 11, about 10:00 pm, she was picked up at her house by Maitland in a black BMW motor car to spend the night with him at an apartment located at Chelsea Manor.
However, on July 12, Donaldson’s mother, Sophia Lugg, reported to police that she had not seen or heard from her daughter.
