Answer your phone, Omar!
March 27, 2008
Daisy Reid, grandmother to 30-year-old Omar Reid, whom the police are seeking to assist their investigation into the recent homicide of 61-year-old British nurse, Barabara Jayne Scott, is begging him to come forward, even as the rural community expresses mixed reactions over the gruesome incident.
" Me have him (Omar Reid) number but from the other day me can't get him. Me only a get him voicemail. Me call, me call, me call. If me would a call him and get him me woulda tell him to go and give up himself. But me naw get no communication from him me don't know which part a world him me just worried," a distraught Daisy Reid, Omar's grandmother told the Observer West. "Nobody don't know him as that type of person it come in as a shock. Me (blood) pressure run up".
Like many in Somerton, Reid finds it very hard to accept that her grandson carried out such a dastardly act.
" Everybody in the district is surprised to hear about it-if him really do it. Omar is so jolly and he especially loves to play with the children. Him jolly with children," a female Somerton resident pointed out to the Observer West.
On the other hand the residents also had very kind words for Scott.
"Nice woman. Barbara is such a kind and loving individual who loves kids and who loves to dance. She would always take the children to beach in her jeep," one resident pointed out.
The quiet rustic community was traumatised on Good Friday when Scott's body was fished from a sewerage pit at her home, following a seven-day search ....
Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer
