Five inmates charged over Ocho Rios lock-up beating
Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2023 | 3:17 PM
The police have charged five inmates over the beating of another prisoner at the Ocho Rios lock-up in St Ann.
Charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm and unlawful wounding are:
* Thirty-three-year-old Dejaro Taylor, otherwise called 'Dusso', of Steer Town, St Ann.
* Twenty-one-year-old Theoni Flemings of Islington, St Mary.
* Thirty-two-year-old Dale Douglas of Colegate, St Ann.
* Twenty-three-year-old Richard Jackson of Hart Street, Kingston.
* Twenty-year-old Tajar Lynch of Runaway Bay, St Ann.
The police say the incident happened on Thursday, January 14.
They report that between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., an argument developed among the men when the inmate was assaulted.
He was taken to hospital where he was treated and is back the custody.
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