... Pleased with cop's arrest

HUMAN RIGHTS group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has expressed satisfaction at news that an ex-cop implicated in the July 2003 shooting death of a nine-year-old girl is now in police custody.

According to the JFJ, the members of the family of Renée Lyons are delighted that the former policeman, Walter Spikes, who was charged with Renée's murder, will finally face justice.

Little Renée was killed by a bullet to the head while playing in her front yard near Portia Simpson Miller Square in St Andrew.

Spikes was arrested on Thursday after he was deported from the United States. He had been on the run for eight years.