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Festival City man faces capital charge

Jul 08, 2009 News

A 20-year-old student was yesterday charged for the murder of Ethiel Jones, also called “Timothy”.
Jason Clarke, of 60 Fifth Street, Alberttown, and a student of Critchlow Labour College, was not required to plead when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
It was alleged that the accused on July 3, at South Ruimveldt, murdered Ethiel Jones.
Clarke was represented by attorney at law Kim Kyte, who asked the court for her client to seek medical attention since he was also injured during the confrontation.
Clarke appeared to be in some discomfort and one of his hands was bandaged and strapped to his neck.
He was remanded to prison and is expected to make another court appearance on July 29.
Jones was killed last Friday after he leveled chants of “fire and brimstone pun all lesbians”. He was beaten to death with an axe handle.
Residents had reported that Clarke and Jones became engaged in a heated exchange of derogatory remarks after the chants of ‘fire bun out all coxswains’ were leveled yet again at the women of the house.
So heated was the exchange that the alleged attacker armed himself with an axe handle and advanced in Jones’ direction. At the time, the now deceased Jones was standing a few doors down. Jones was armed with several pieces of stone and a bottle.
Some eyewitnesses said that they saw Jones with a cutlass in his hand while his killer was armed with an axe-handle.

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