Attorney’s throat slashed
Mother dies in similar fashion to son five years earlier
BY COREY ROBINSON Observer staff reporter [email protected]

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Clover Maxine Graham only returned home last week from London where she hoped to dampen the still painful memories of her son’s brutal murder, as she basked in the euphoria of Jamaica’s Olympic performance.
The joy of the Olympics turned to grief yesterday morning when police found the body of the 56-year-old lawyer on the infield of the Caymanas Polo Club, off the Mandela Highway in St Catherine. The corpse was lying face-down with its throat slashed — a similar position in which her son, Taiwo McKenzie and his girlfriend Jhanel Whyte, the victims of the horrific 2007 ‘Good Samaritan’ killings, were found.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Clover Maxine Graham
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The discovery, according to Graham’s daughter, Zakiya, was a heart-rending end to a night of searching. Zakiya, eight months pregnant, looked on despondent as investigators combed the area near her mother’s body for clues.
“I don’t know if it is the baby why I am (calm) like this,” said Zakiya, rubbing her belly as she leaned against her teary-eyed boyfriend for support. “I don’t cry yet, just one and two tears from morning, and I’m concerned for myself because of it,” she continued.
Zakiya appeared the strongest compared with her sister and other female friends who sobbed uncontrollably at the scene. They all had been visiting hospitals throughout the night in search of Graham, whose car police found abandoned in the Waltham Park Road community in Kingston.
“They (police) found the car last night and called us. I was the one who filed a missing person’s report and from that time we have just been calling around, visiting different hospitals to see if she was in any of them,” related Zakiya.
She said police called her to the murder scene about 7:00 am.
“She just came back from London last week; not even a week good and dem kill her,” sighed Zakiya, her bewildered boyfriend staring on. To him Graham was “like a mother”, especially after the death of his own mother recently. He fought back tears as he comforted his woman.
Graham, a University of Technology lecturer and UN representative, hailed from Eltham Acres in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Police theorised that she was abducted while entering her home Saturday night.
Police found the lock on her front grille opened, said Zakiya, adding that her mother headed home after visiting a friend in Hope Pastures, St Andrew.
Two months ago, 24-year-old André Ennis of Havendale, St Andrew, and 24-year-old Passmore Millings, also called Shane Brown, of Gregory Park, St Catherine, both labourers, were convicted for slashing the throats of McKenzie and his girlfriend, before dumping them in bushes in Mount Salus, St Andrew, in November 2007.
Dubbed the ‘Good Samaritans’, the couple had gone to the area with medication and other supplies for Ennis and George Cooper (later turned state witness) who they had hit from a motorcycle while driving along Border Avenue in St Andrew, a week earlier.
Ennis and Millings are to be sentenced for those murders next month.
Yesterday, Zakiya could not say whether Graham had been receiving threats since the men’s conviction. She noted, however, that her mother’s Eltham Acres dwelling was broken into during the London trip, and that the burglars only took bottles of liquor from the premises.
“Since my brother’s death she didn’t have to stay in Jamaica, none of us had to stay in Jamaica. But my mother just never wanted to leave. She always said Jamaica was her home,” said Zakiya, explaining that her mother was not frightened much by the break-in.
Yesterday, Ian Wilkinson, president of the Jamaican Bar Association, said the organisation was saddened by Graham’s death, and sent condolence to her family. He described Graham as “well-mannered and dedicated”, and said that she had spent much of her time doing legal-aid work.

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Man held following rape at Manchester night club, human trafficking probe launched
2012-08-20 12:08:51 | (0 Comments)

Dave Lindo, Gleaner Writer

A man is now in hospital under police guard for allegedly raping a teenage girl.

Reports indicate that the accused rapist man was among a group of men who raped one of two girls who were dancing at the Paulette’s Night Club in Colleyville, Manchester about 1:30 this morning.

It’s reported that the girls, aged 14 and 15, were dragged to the back of the club and assaulted.

The owner of the club was reportedly stabbed while trying to help the girls.
She has also been hospitalised.

The alleged rapist was taken into custody after he was chopped by a patron at the club.

The other men escaped.

Head of the Area Thee Police Assistant Commissioner Derrick Cochrane says the Organised Crime Investigation Division has been called in to probe reports of human trafficking in relation to the incident.

The owner of the nightclub is also facing criminal charges.

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Men Convicted Of Good Samaritans’ Murders
Published: Thursday | June 21, 2012 12 Comments
Barbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

A jury deliberated for five hours yesterday and convicted the two men who were charged with the murder of a couple dubbed the ‘Good Samaritans’.

The relatives of the deceased, who attended court daily, wept openly when they heard the verdict.

Convicted of the double murder are labourers 24-year-old André Ennis of Havendale, St Andrew, and 24-year-old Passmore Millings, also called Shane Brown, of Gregory Park, St Catherine.

Supreme Court judge Lloyd Hibbert, who presided at the trial in the Home Circuit Court, will sentence them on July 20.

The couple – 23-year-old human-resource officer Jhanel Whyte and her boyfriend 24-year-old student Taiwo McKenzie – were tied up and gagged after they went to Havendale to give medical supplies to an injured man on November 7, 2007.

They were later taken to bushes in Mount Salus, near Smokey Vale, St Andrew, where their throats were slashed. The bodies were discovered on November 9, 2007.

The Crown, represented by Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn and prosecutors Claudette Thompson and Kerri Ann Kemble, led evidence that on November 6, 2007, McKenzie’s motor car collided with a motorcycle on which Ennis and George Cooper were travelling.

KIDNAPPED

Cooper’s ankle was injured and the next day when the couple took medical supplies to Cooper in Havendale, they were kidnapped.

Cooper, who is now serving an eight-year prison sentence for conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to rob the couple, was the main witness for the prosecution. He pleaded guilty last year to the charges.

Cooper said after the accident, the police said the motorcycle was not registered and McKenzie said he was not going to pay for the repairs.

Cooper said when the couple came to give him the medical supplies, Ennis took the key from McKenzie’s motor car and, along with Millings and another man, tied the couple’s hands and gagged them.

He said Ennis drove McKenzie’s motor car up to the hill. Ennis and Millings took the couple into the bushes and later returned with a knife which had blood on it. He said the men also had blood on their hands.

Ennis, who is the brother of well-known entertainer Elephant Man, and Millings gave unsworn statements denying they murdered the couple.

Attorney-at-law C.J. Mitchell is representing Ennis, while attorneys-at-law Tom Tavares-Finson and Christian Tavares-Finson are representing Millings.

An elite politician in Mwavumbo, Mariakani area was yesterday attacked by a prostitute he had refused to pay last month after sex with her. The prostitute claimed that they had negotiated the fee but he ran away before she could reach him.

In a dramatic incident, the politician who is known to frequent the petite girls’ base went there and requested for services from one of the girls. As the politician approached the hotel room, another prostitute who had been a victim of his wits saw him.

The politician however went along with his business and when they finished their illicit affair, he walked out of the hotel room and was greeted by a prostitute holding human waste. The woman hit him with the human waste and decorated his stunning expensive suit with it.

“ulikuwa unadhani utapotea huh! Pesa zangu zi wapi uliniwacha bila malipo, mwanaume wa wapi wewe?” (You thought you will run away, where is my money, you ran away without paying what kind of a man are you?)

Ashamed by his newly acquired state, the politician paid the prostitute all the money he had and ran to his waiting car.