MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A Manchester man has been charged with the January 19 murder of his brother who had been visiting from the United Kingdom.

The deceased has been identified as 48-year-old UK resident Michael Brown. Police theorise that an alleged family dispute over land and houses was a possible motive in the killing of Brown in Mike Town in the parish.

Charged with murder is 38-year-old Lemone Brown, a carpenter and resident of Love Lane in Mike Town.

Michael Brown, otherwise called ‘Jimmy’, was shot and killed about 12:20 am while in bed, four days after laying his 74-year-old mother to rest.

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Head of the Manchester police Superintendent Shane McCalla last week told the Jamaica Observer that the police had intervened in the alleged dispute over land days before the murder.

In a press release on Thursday police said “concentrated evidence led to the arrest and charge of Lemone Brown, whose court date is currently being finalised”.