Judge tells six accused in ATM murders to get lawyers
THE four young men and two teenage girls charged with the murders of financial analyst Jamie Lue and Jamaica Aids Support Unit employee Steve Harvey late last year were yesterday instructed to settle their legal representation and return to the Kingston Circuit Court tomorrow.
The six appeared yesterday before Justice Marva McIntosh.
The matter, which was before the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate Court, was transferred to the Circuit Court yesterday.
Charged with the November 2005 murder of Harvey, 30, are Andre West, otherwise called Dwayne,19; Duane Owens, 23; Trishana Spence, 19; a 17 year-old girl; and Rhyan Wilson.
Harvey was abducted from his Duhaney Drive, Kingston 20, home by gunmen and later found dead on Pinewood Terrace in Kingston on Wednesday, November 30. Harvey’s ATM card was taken along with other items. His stolen motor car was found, parked at the football field at Markland Avenue in Grants Pen, St Andrew.
Charged with the December 2005 murder of Lue, 25, a financial analyst who was employed at Alliance Capital Limited, are Owens, West and Lynford Allen.
Lue, who lived at Orange Grove in Stony Hill, St Andrew, was abducted, robbed and killed. His body was found in the back of his Honda CRV along Mayfair Avenue, at the foot of Beverley Hills on December 31.
It is believed that Lue was on his way to pick up his girlfriend in Acadia when he was abducted in the Constant Spring area.
The accused, who are all from an area called Vietnam in the inner-city community of Grants Pen, were arrested on January 12 this year during a police operation which the police said turned up a Ruger 9mm pistol and a .38 revolver.
Clothes, suitcases, jewellery, cell phones and watches belonging to both victims were also recovered, the police said.
The stolen ATM cards of both victims were used to withdraw money from the accounts of Lue and Harvey.