Main suspect in cop's murder turns himself in
February 18, 2007
Less than a week after 40-year-old Detective Corporal Dave Daley was murdered in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, the man police said was the main suspect wanted in connection with the killing turned himself in to the authorities yesterday.
The police say Christopher Thomas of a Brook Valley address in St Andrew, accompanied by his lawyer, went to Major Investigation Taskforce detectives yesterday morning.
Superintendent in charge of the St Andrew South Police division, Newton Amos, told the Sunday Observer that Thomas was the third person to turn himself in after his brother, Junior Thomas, handed himself over to the Kingston Criminal Investigation Bureau on Wednesday evening, and another man, known only as Leeford, handed himself over on Tuesday evening.
"He is the third person to have done so, but he is our main suspect and we are very pleased that he has allowed good sense to prevail and take himself in, and we are well on our way now to doing a number of things which I will not speak to right now, but it goes to show how important it is for us to work together as a people to ensure that we don't allow criminality to consume us," Amos told the Sunday Observer.
He said Thomas had no choice but to surrender as the police made short work of closing the ranks on him after he was identified as one of the persons who was involved in the fatal shooting of the corporal.
"We went in pursuit, and since then we have been tracking him in some five different sections, both in the vicinity of Brook Valley and the St Andrew South Division, and I'm sure that has led him to understand that we were not sparing any time in getting him into custody,"
Amos stated.
"We are very pleased with the pace and the progress of the investigations. I said at the inception that we wanted to close this up one way or the other at the shortest possible time, and the police efforts, the resources that were made available to treat with this, we are very pleased to know we are able to do this," Amos added....
Author: Alicia Dunkley
Source: Jamaica Observer
