Beheading becoming a worrying trend - Bunting

Opposition spokesman on national security, Peter Bunting, has expressed outrage and condemnation at the fourth beheading in the island in just over a week and has noted that this is developing into "a worrying trend".

According to Bunting, "It appears that gangs are copying this gruesome and savage practice, which must be quashed before it spirals out of control."

Time to unite

The opposition spokesman charged that: "While beheading is used by terrorists to drive fear into communities and society, all well-thinking Jamaicans must instead interpret this as a signal to unite in our resolve to expel these elements from among us and bring them to justice."

Bunting's comment came hours after the headless body of 37-year-old George Emanuel Smith, otherwise called 'Bobby' or 'Druggist', a mason of Bedward Gardens, August Town, St Andrew, was found Saturday morning metres from his house on Top Road.

That closed a week in which 19-year-old Scott Thomas was killed and beheaded in Lauriston, St Catherine. Thomas' neighbours, 40-year-old Charmaine Rattray and her 19-year-old daughter Joeith Lynch, suffered a similar fate days later.