Common-law wife allegedly stabs man to death after machete beating
Published:Thursday | October 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Tamara Bailey, Gleaner Writer
A Manchester woman is now in police custody after stabbing to death her 38-year-old common-law husband, Oneil Coleman.
The woman reportedly stabbed Coleman in the neck this morning after he used a machete to beat her at their home in the southern community of Woodlands.
The police say both Coleman and his common-law wife have made complaints about each other for varying reasons.
One person claiming to be a friend of the deceased, said, ordinarily Coleman would not have been in confrontation with anyone.
"He was a hard-working farmer. Him neva make trouble wid anybody. The most you hear from him is when him drunk and him start run him jokes."
He also said Coleman was in an abusive relationship.
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