MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Damanice Tyrone Williamson, the 27-year-old member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) charged with the murder of his girlfriend, 29-year-old Tanzanya Dunkley, in Three Chains, Manchester last week, was remanded when he made his first court appearance on Friday.

Williamson appeared in the Manchester Parish Court before Judge Anneil Coote-Guinness.

A psychiatric evaluation and fingerprinting were ordered by the judge for Williamson.

Relatives of both the accused and the victim turned up in court on Friday.

Williamson is being represented by attorney Norman Godfrey.

Williamson was charged with the murder of Dunkley over the weekend after he confessed to killing her during a dispute.

Over the weekend a police source said Williamson in confessing to the killing, claimed that a voice told him to carry out the gruesome act.

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“They had an argument and the woman decided that she was going to leave [the relationship], and he grabbed her phone. She held on to him. He is saying that a voice told him to kill her. He took the knife and cut her throat,” a police source told the Jamaica Observer on Saturday.

The incident reignited widespread debate about domestic violence. Since the murder, too, a video showing a man — believed to be the suspect — armed with what appears to be a knife asking police personnel to “shoot him and kill him” has gone viral on social media. The video was reportedly captured at Mandeville Police Station after Dunkley’s murder.

Police said the suspect told Dunkley’s 12-year-old daughter that he wanted to speak to her mother and instructed the child to go to an upper floor of the house in Three Chains moments before the murder.

Police said Williamson then slashed Dunkley’s throat before leaving the premises.

On Friday, April 3 neighbours told the Observer that about 3:00 pm they heard screams coming from the house and shortly after saw a man, covered in what appeared to be blood, running from the premises.

— Kasey Williams