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<span style='font-family: Arial Black'>Brothers on the most wanted list killed </span>
Monday, 10 December 2007
Senior CIB Detectives probing Sunday's shooting deaths of two men and a 10-month old baby, say the men on the island's 12 most wanted list released to the media on November 8.
The police say while investigations are in the preliminary stages, there is enough evidence to suggest that the two men identified as brothers Wayne and Deon Dryden, were linked to several murders.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in Charge of the CIB Denver Frater, says detectives are conducting exhaustive forensic checks to determine if they were wanted in connection with several murders in Bog Walk, St Catherine over the past two years.
A third Dryden brother, Linton was also on the list.
The 10-month old girl remains unidentified but investigators suspect that she was the daughter of one of the men.
According to police reports, residents heard explosions near the Oak Glades Housing Scheme off Spanish Town Road in Kingston.
A woman was later seen running from the scheme calling for help.
She was taken to hospital with multiple bullet wounds.
Investigators found the bullet riddled bodies of the Dryden brothers and the baby
Three killed in gruesome attack
Monday, 10 December 2007
As the blood-letting continues across the island, rampaging gunmen Sunday night snuffed out the life of a child who was just a year old.
The baby was among three people found with dead from apparent gunshot wounds in a car off Spanish Town Road just after 9 o'clock.
The other victims found dead in the car were male.
A woman who was found still alive in the vehicle was taken to hospital, where she was listed in critical condition.
Onlookers report that she had run out of the gully where the car was, to a nearby church where she begged people to save her baby.
Initial investigations suggest that the four were shot elsewhere and the gunmen transported them in the car to an unfinished section of the Oak Glade Housing Scheme, off Spanish Town Road.
The men then abandoned the vehicle.
Who killed Summerfa Dryden?
<span style='font-family: Arial Black'>Family suspect he was murdered by police </span>
Monday, December 10, 2007
WAKESFIELD, St Catherine - The family of 32-year-old construction worker Summerfa 'Craig' Dryden, whose nude body was found in bushes in the Wakesfield district of Bog Walk last month, are claiming that he was murdered by the police and are calling for an immediate investigation.
Dryden's sister, Karen Dryden, the most vocal of the family, alleged that her kin was murdered by the police because he had, on several occasions, received death threats from a particular cop.
The family's suspicion was further stoked when Karen went to the Linstead Police Station on October 3 to report the disappearance of her brother and was allegedly informed that his body had been found two days earlier, with what appeared to be a bullet wound and was buried after an on-the-spot post-mortem.
She said the police told her that the body was buried immediately due to the bad state of decomposition. But this explanation, instead of offering solace, only added to the family's suspicions.
"No one was contacted and no bulletin sent out reporting that an unidentified body was found or a description of the body. I don't believe the body can decompose so fast in just two days. Something wrong! Something smells fishy!" she complained to the Observer.
"If it wasn't the police who killed him why wouldn't they have made a public announcement? Why was the body removed all the way to Old Harbour [for burial] when he lives in Linstead?" she asked.
"The next thing is that the doctor they claimed did the post-mortem denied it. We want to see justice done," she exclaimed.
The family said they are now in the process of getting the body exhumed for an independent post-mortem and a proper burial. The matter has since been brought to the attention of the Jamaicans For Justice, the minister of national security and the Police Public Complaints Authority.
According to the family, Drysden went missing on September 29. A taxi operator, they said, told them he had transported him to Commodore Crossing (on the Linstead bypass) between 7:30 and 8:00 that evening.
Detective Sergeant Winston Radcliff, the sub-officer in charge of crime for the Bog Walk area, said that on October 1 he received information that a body was found on the McConnell property in Wakesfield district. He said that he visited the scene around 8:30 that morning to find the decomposed, nude body of a male with clothes lying beside him and two empty bags.
He said that due to the state of the body, a pathologist was called in to do an on-the-spot post-mortem. He then ordered the interment of the body at the Church Pen cemetery in Old Harbour as is customary for unidentified, decomposed bodies.
In seeking to allay the concerns of the family, Radcliff said that the rapid decomposition of the body was due to its exposure to the elements.
Radcliff said that to date the body has not been identified as no one from the family has been able to make a positive ID.
"On the day Karen Dryden and her sister, Mitzie, came to the station they identified a bag, a pair of shoes and a pair of pants as belonging to him. But we cannot really use clothes to say for sure that it was him," said Radcliff. "We told them that we would get a copy of the scene of crime photo for them to view but none of them has come to say this is their brother. We have reached the point where we have gazetted the body. So officially the body has not been identified in our books."
Dryden feels her brother was killed because the police are unable to get hold of three cousins of the family accused of murder.
While denying the threats, Radcliff admitted that the cousins - Linton, Wayne and Dion Dryden - are on the police's most wanted list and are linked to over 20 murders since 2005, including those of the five men killed execution style in Swamp Lane, Bog Walk in February this year.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html...RFA_DRYDEN_.asp
Monday, 10 December 2007
Senior CIB Detectives probing Sunday's shooting deaths of two men and a 10-month old baby, say the men on the island's 12 most wanted list released to the media on November 8.
The police say while investigations are in the preliminary stages, there is enough evidence to suggest that the two men identified as brothers Wayne and Deon Dryden, were linked to several murders.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in Charge of the CIB Denver Frater, says detectives are conducting exhaustive forensic checks to determine if they were wanted in connection with several murders in Bog Walk, St Catherine over the past two years.
A third Dryden brother, Linton was also on the list.
The 10-month old girl remains unidentified but investigators suspect that she was the daughter of one of the men.
According to police reports, residents heard explosions near the Oak Glades Housing Scheme off Spanish Town Road in Kingston.
A woman was later seen running from the scheme calling for help.
She was taken to hospital with multiple bullet wounds.
Investigators found the bullet riddled bodies of the Dryden brothers and the baby
Three killed in gruesome attack
Monday, 10 December 2007
As the blood-letting continues across the island, rampaging gunmen Sunday night snuffed out the life of a child who was just a year old.
The baby was among three people found with dead from apparent gunshot wounds in a car off Spanish Town Road just after 9 o'clock.
The other victims found dead in the car were male.
A woman who was found still alive in the vehicle was taken to hospital, where she was listed in critical condition.
Onlookers report that she had run out of the gully where the car was, to a nearby church where she begged people to save her baby.
Initial investigations suggest that the four were shot elsewhere and the gunmen transported them in the car to an unfinished section of the Oak Glade Housing Scheme, off Spanish Town Road.
The men then abandoned the vehicle.
Who killed Summerfa Dryden?
<span style='font-family: Arial Black'>Family suspect he was murdered by police </span>
Monday, December 10, 2007
WAKESFIELD, St Catherine - The family of 32-year-old construction worker Summerfa 'Craig' Dryden, whose nude body was found in bushes in the Wakesfield district of Bog Walk last month, are claiming that he was murdered by the police and are calling for an immediate investigation.
Dryden's sister, Karen Dryden, the most vocal of the family, alleged that her kin was murdered by the police because he had, on several occasions, received death threats from a particular cop.
The family's suspicion was further stoked when Karen went to the Linstead Police Station on October 3 to report the disappearance of her brother and was allegedly informed that his body had been found two days earlier, with what appeared to be a bullet wound and was buried after an on-the-spot post-mortem.
She said the police told her that the body was buried immediately due to the bad state of decomposition. But this explanation, instead of offering solace, only added to the family's suspicions.
"No one was contacted and no bulletin sent out reporting that an unidentified body was found or a description of the body. I don't believe the body can decompose so fast in just two days. Something wrong! Something smells fishy!" she complained to the Observer.
"If it wasn't the police who killed him why wouldn't they have made a public announcement? Why was the body removed all the way to Old Harbour [for burial] when he lives in Linstead?" she asked.
"The next thing is that the doctor they claimed did the post-mortem denied it. We want to see justice done," she exclaimed.
The family said they are now in the process of getting the body exhumed for an independent post-mortem and a proper burial. The matter has since been brought to the attention of the Jamaicans For Justice, the minister of national security and the Police Public Complaints Authority.
According to the family, Drysden went missing on September 29. A taxi operator, they said, told them he had transported him to Commodore Crossing (on the Linstead bypass) between 7:30 and 8:00 that evening.
Detective Sergeant Winston Radcliff, the sub-officer in charge of crime for the Bog Walk area, said that on October 1 he received information that a body was found on the McConnell property in Wakesfield district. He said that he visited the scene around 8:30 that morning to find the decomposed, nude body of a male with clothes lying beside him and two empty bags.
He said that due to the state of the body, a pathologist was called in to do an on-the-spot post-mortem. He then ordered the interment of the body at the Church Pen cemetery in Old Harbour as is customary for unidentified, decomposed bodies.
In seeking to allay the concerns of the family, Radcliff said that the rapid decomposition of the body was due to its exposure to the elements.
Radcliff said that to date the body has not been identified as no one from the family has been able to make a positive ID.
"On the day Karen Dryden and her sister, Mitzie, came to the station they identified a bag, a pair of shoes and a pair of pants as belonging to him. But we cannot really use clothes to say for sure that it was him," said Radcliff. "We told them that we would get a copy of the scene of crime photo for them to view but none of them has come to say this is their brother. We have reached the point where we have gazetted the body. So officially the body has not been identified in our books."
Dryden feels her brother was killed because the police are unable to get hold of three cousins of the family accused of murder.
While denying the threats, Radcliff admitted that the cousins - Linton, Wayne and Dion Dryden - are on the police's most wanted list and are linked to over 20 murders since 2005, including those of the five men killed execution style in Swamp Lane, Bog Walk in February this year.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html...RFA_DRYDEN_.asp