19-y-o charged for killing retiree

Assistant Commissioner of Police McArthur Sutherland says a 19-year-old man has confessed to killing retiree Peggy Aljoe, the sister of former Chief Justice Zaila McCalla, at her home in Discovery Bay, St Ann last month.

The man, Oral Redway, a labourer with addresses in St Ann and Westmoreland, has since been charged with murder.

Aljoe’s body was found with abrasions and what the police described as bludgeon wounds to the neck near the perimeter fence of her property in Bridgewater district on October 24.

The retiree was killed days after she returned to Jamaica from the United States.

Sutherland says Redway was apprehended on Thursday after the probe by the Major Investigation Division led detectives to premises in Townhead district, in Westmoreland.

He says a search of the premises revealed several items that belonged to Aljoe.

The head of the police Criminal Investigations Branch said “during the process the suspect confessed” to the killing and was interviewed in the presence of his attorney.

Redway is to appear before the St Ann Criminal Court next Thursday.

Sutherland says the arrest should serve as a warning to criminals that “they will be pursued and arrested by our investigators who are trained and prepared to take on the challenge.

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