KINGSTON, Jamaica – Amoi Leon-Issa, the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King, has been ordered by the Supreme Court to give investigators access to her cellular phone to by 4:00 pm on Friday.

The court had dismissed a claim put forward by Leon-Issa as she sought to stop a production order for the phone. She had argued that allowing investigators to search the phone by way of the production order would be a breach of her right to privacy.

However, today’s ruling said for the investigation into her son’s murder, the benefits gained from granting the production order “far outweigh the breach of privacy of the claimant”.

Gabriel was murdered along the Tucker main road in St James on January 13, 2022.

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But, Leon- Issa had repeatedly failed to allow police investigators to search her cellphone after they indicated a desire to analyse information on the device as part of their investigation into the killing of her autistic son after he was murdered when she reported to the police that her car had been hijacked with the child inside.

The St James Parish Court had ruled that she must comply with the request for her cellphone’s password.

In order to combat this, a constitutional hearing to decide whether or not the production order granted to investigators in 2022, to search her cellphone, is a breach of her right to privacy, was held in July.

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