February 25, 2025
Woman pleads guilty to murder of Canadian pensioner
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica –A 30-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to the 2017 murder of a Canadian pensioner.
Sadene Green of Edgewater Avenue, Portmore, St Catherine, admitted to killing 82-year-old Fitz Albert Barnes when she appeared in the St Catherine Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Reports are that Barnes’ body was found wrapped in a tarpaulin at his home on Young Street in Spanish Town, St Catherine in May of that year.
Following investigations by the Spanish Town Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB), Green was apprehended in 2018.
A post-mortem revealed that Barnes died from several stab wounds and blunt-force trauma to the head.
Green will reappear for sentencing on April 4, 2025.