HANOVER, Jamaica – The 42-year-old construction worker, who was charged with the gruesome rape and murder of nine-year-old Nikita Noel in Hanover five months ago, is to return to the Hanover Circuit Court on July 31 for a sentencing hearing.

The date was set when Omar Green made an appearance in court where he pleaded guilty to the two counts rape and murder on Tuesday.

The court was also given a gruesome and graphic description of the sequence of what took place, the evidence found, documented and the results from the lab and a post-mortem examination.

The post-mortem report indicated that the child died of manual strangulation while the DNA profile from the exhibits provided, including semen to the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine has strongly linked Green as a contributor or in some cases cannot be excluded.

Nikita, a former Esher Primary School student whose family members fondly called Joanna, was killed on the afternoon of February 1, 2023. Earlier that morning, the accused and the child’s mother allegedly had a domestic dispute.

Reports are that the nine-year-old travelled from school with her usual taxi driver before she and other passengers exited the cab at the usual spot, the foot of a dirt road leading up a hill that leads to where her family lives.

The child’s mother raised an alarm after she did not return home as scheduled and could not be found. Community members and the police launched a search and her body was found a few feet from the entrance to her home.

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