Killancholly verdict expected today

The jury is expected to hand down its verdict today in the trial of a security guard accused of killing three Children in 2005.



Thirty-five-year-old, Jeffrey Perry, has been on trial since November 17 for the murders of three siblings from Killancholy St Mary, between January 27 and January 28, 2005.



Yesterday, in her summation Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh told the 12- member jury to first consider whether Perry gave a caution statement admitting to killing the three children.



The judge said if the jury found that Perry admitted to killing the children in the statement, then the jury should go further and consider whether the statement was true.



She described a part of the caution statement as incriminating and the other part as self-serving but advised the jury to consider all of the statement, which was read to them at the trial.



The children, 13-year-old Sue Ann Gordon, 15-year-old Dwayne Davidson and four-year-old Shadice Williams, were fatally stabbed at their home at Killancholly, St Mary.



Perry gave the caution statement on February 8, 2005 and it was written by Detective Inspector Michael Garrick.



Deputy Superintendent Robert Whyte and attorney-a-law Christopher Hibbert were present when the statement was given.



The judge read the caution statement to the jury in which Perry said a voice told him to kill the children.