MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Tanzanya Dunkley, the 29-year-old woman whose throat was slashed reportedly by her boyfriend, Damanice Tyrone Williamson, 27, at her home in Three Chains near here last week was remembered on Friday as a unique air conditioning technician by her employer.

Irvin Sullivan said Dunkley — his employee for eight years — worked alongside him in his refrigeration and air conditioning repair and servicing business.

“She was an exceptional worker who didn’t just turn up for her pay. Whenever I paid that young lady I was satisfied that I paid for a day’s work, because she went beyond the call of duty. She worked as if she was a shareholder in the business, that is the kind of employee she was and she is irreplaceable, believe me,” a grief-stricken Sullivan told journalists outside the Manchester Parish Court.

Sullivan was among a group of relatives and friends of Dunkley who turned up at James Warehouse plaza for the first court appearance of Williamson, a member of the Jamaica Defence Force. Williamson’s father was also present at the court hearing.

Presiding Judge Anneil Coote-Guinness ordered a psychiatric evaluation and the fingerprinting of Williamson before remanding him to reappear in court on May 20 for case management.

In ordering the psychiatric evaluation Coote-Guinness said she “did not object” to the clerk of court’s request for the procedure.

The clerk said based on the police’s report that Williamson “made certain utterances as to why he did certain things including hearing voices”.

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

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

“They had an argument and the woman decided that she was going to leave [him], 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,” the police source told the Jamaica Observer last week.

Williamson then turned up at the Mandeville Police Station armed with what appeared to be a knife asking police personnel to “shoot him and kill him”.

It was disclosed in court on Friday that the case file is incomplete as several documents including the post-mortem, forensics, and statements were outstanding.

Williamson’s attorney Norman Godfrey told the court that he is awaiting the disclosure of documents.

“I have seen the list of documents that are outstanding and I am aware of the fact that it is early days yet. I ask that a copy of the caution statement be made available as early as possible,” Godfrey said.

An undated photo of murder victim Tanzanya Dunkley.