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Family not optimistic about justice for Stacy Walton
Kaieteur News – As the Alfred Dejonge manslaughter trial gets underway on September 26 in the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court, family members say they are not too optimistic about a positive outcome in the matter.
Deceased, Stacy Walton
It has been three months since Stacy Walton died by drowning, as confirmed by post-mortem results. The circumstances of her death are debated in the public domain after several inconsistent accounts of what transpired were given by her boyfriend Dejonge, who was released on $1 million bail. The family believes that justice may be unlikely.
Raoul Walton, the father of 22-year-old Stacy, believes that his daughter’s case will be another statistic the perpetrator walks free or gets a ‘slap on the wrist.’
The Angoys’ Avenue, New Amsterdam resident reasoned that bail being granted to her former boyfriend Dejonge is worrying.
Dejonge had told investigators that he was in the vehicle being driven by Walton when, during the course of an argument, the car swerved into a trench along the Number Seven Village Public Road, West Coast Berbice. He also stated in another summary that he was in a car a short distance behind her, and that he arrived to the scene of a car being overboard, which he found out afterwards to be that of Stacy.
These conflicting reports, according to the father of the now dead woman, have all the making for a compelling case against the accused.
Raoul Walton, father of Stacy Walton at their home in Angoy’s Avenue
“There is no positive outcome in this case. Alfred is supposed to be in prison. He’s supposed to get remanded to prison.”
“You could clearly see, if it ain’t rule in the family favour from the beginning, most likely the ending will rule just like how it ruled (there). Because justice is justice, and you don’t have to pay money to get justice. Justice supposed to be a rule. We’re just watching to see what’s going on…the family coping with it, because there is always a higher judge,” he expressed to this newspaper.
“Life would never be nice without Stacy, because she was my only daughter.”
The lone girl among five children, Stacy Walton operated a business in Pitt Street, New Amsterdam. The mother of one had frequently denied any physical abuse by Dejonge when questioned by her father.
The older Walton told Kaieteur News that he did all he could, but it was ultimately up to Stacy, who he hailed as the “uplifter for this family,” as a young adult to make her decisions.
“The way she was striving, it was very impressive. She impressed me as her father. I was very happy to know that my daughter was such a person. I will always keep that in my mind and my heart.”
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