Killer cop's wife looks to US for treatment
Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Livern Barrett, Gleaner Writer
Joan Llewellyn, the woman critically injured by her husband in last Thursday's murderous rampage in Three Hills, St Mary, has been paralysed from the waist down, one of her sisters revealed yesterday.
Valerie Brown said her sister is "conscious and talking" nearly one week after the shocking multiple murder-suicide, but pointed out that it is still not certain if she will be permanently paralysed.
"We are not sure. We can't say at this point, the bullet is still there," Brown told The Gleaner yesterday.
Brown said the family, led by her older sister who works in trauma care in the United States (US), is making plans to fly Llewellyn to the US for treatment, but that, too, has not yet been confirmed.
Investigators say Joan Llewellyn was shot by her estranged husband, police Corporal Wayne Llewellyn, who also killed her mother, father, brother and daughter before putting a bullet in his own head.
no motive established
It is still not clear what triggered Wayne Llewellyn's deadly rage, but some of his wife's relatives describe him as controlling and abusive and said he had threatened to kill her and her parents in the past.
Brown said that since regaining consciousness, her sister, who is being treated at the Kingston Public Hospital, has talked briefly about the incident.
She said Joan told family members she did not see when her husband began his killing spree as she was in another room "getting ready for work".
"So she really didn't see everything when it happened, how it started, all of that, she just heard shots and eventually he got to her," Brown recounted.
"She told us what she heard from where she was in the house and since that she hasn't really talked about how she is feeling," she added.
Brown said she was aware of attempts by relatives of Corporal Llewellyn to reach out to her family, but stressed that she had nothing to say about it.