Police believe the murder of a couple two weeks ago in St Elizabeth may have to do with a court case involving Tesha Miller, reputed leader of the Spanish Town, St Catherine-based Clansman gang.
On August 11, Jason Cranston, 30, and Sonia Bennett, 45, were believed to have been trailed from Kingston to St Elizabeth where they were slain. Cranston was shot as he sat in his Suzuki truck, while Bennett was killed trying to escape the attackers.
In the wake of the deadly attack, which investigators dubbed a contract killing, it was reported that Cranston, a resident of Job Lane in Spanish Town, St Catherine, was a witness in a case against Miller. Police say Cranston was urged to enter the Witness Protection Programme but declined.
Miller and another man, whose name is being withheld pending his arrest, are to be tried for the April 7, 2004, murder of Robert Haughton on St John's Road in Spanish Town. Cranston witnessed this incident.
Contract killing
Crime chief, Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields, said though it started out as mere speculation, police believe that the murders were linked to the Clansman boss.
"We have the intelligence and it points that the murder was indeed a contract killing," DCP Shields said before adding, "Yes, I'm aware of the incident and the subsequent speculation ... It is something that the police are looking at on a serious level."
In addition to Haughton's killing, Miller, 27, is facing trial for the murders of Oraine Jackson, Jeffery Johnson,and Nicole Allen in Braeton, St Catherine, on January 14, 2005.
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