Sugar Ray Thomas
Nadine Campbell, the mother of 20-year-old Alisa Garey, who was stabbed to death allegedly by her ex-boyfriend, is claiming that police officers never took seriously the threat made by the man to kill her daughter.
Twenty-year-old Ryan Edwards was obsessive and also had developed deviant behaviours that led Garey to end their over two-year relationship, it is reported.
However, according to family members, Edwards would not let go and issued prior threats to kill Campbell’s daughter, who she describes as her baby.
Ms Campbell explained that on Wednesday morning, December 14, she was not at home, but got a call from her sister (Alisa Garey’s aunt) sometime after 9 a.m. that Edwards was at the house.
“Mi call mi big son and say ‘Shane, Ryan up a yard and mi want yuh get him out a di yard fi mi.’ And mi son come up and him get him out a the yard. But dem (Alisa Garey and her aunt) call mi and dem say dem a go down a station,” Ms Campbell explained.
Garey had decided to finally follow through to report the threat made by Edwards that morning that he was going to kill her. She and her daughter went to the police station together. Edwardswas there and was warned by the police not to carry out his threats.
THREATENING HER
Later Edwardswalked out of the parking lot in the vicinity of Champion supermarket – about 300 yards from the police station — and approached both women.
“Mi say to him yuh need fi leave mi daughter alone and mek she live her life. You can’t behave so. Mi say look how yuh stay, because him get mawga and him look wild. Mi nah tell no lie… And him say, ‘see yuh a tek up fi har and yuh wouldn’t understand enuh.’ But mi tell him say Lisa (Alisa Garey) a my concern enuh. Same time she (Garey) deh behind mi and she a say ‘Mummy mi nuh like how Ryan a look pon mi enuh. Mi nuh like how Ryan a look,” Ms Campbell explained with the pain in her voice.
She said that by the time she looked away from Edwards to look at her daughter to provide comfort, she heard her daughter cry out.
“Mi hear she cry out, ‘Jesus God, mommy Ryan stab mi’ and mi turn round and see her left hand cut and mi push him weh and mi see him stagger back and him run off,” Ms Campbell recounted.
ACCUSED ALSO AT THE HOSPITAL
She added that while at the hospital, she heard that Edwards was at the emergency room. She said she had heard that they caught him at the Turtle River Park and he had thrown away the murder weapon, the knife.
Ms Campbell is finding it difficult to cope, but says she has to be strong for Garey’s eight siblings, especially the younger children who do not understand that their sister will not be coming home.
“Mi pray to God fi give mi the strength. Mi sad and mi in a pain and mi belly nuh stop hurt mi from it happen. She a one a mi best child,” she noted.
Although angry, she says she is happy that justice was served on Edwards and he was not able to kill himself before he was apprehended.
She further pointed out that people were saying that her daughter had taken “his tings”, but this was not true as Edwards was not working at the time. She recalled on one occasion when Edwards was employed and brought money for Garey, she refused it.
DREAMS
“Her (Alisa Garey’s) dream was to become a chef, because right now mi nuh know who ago cook fi we on a Sunday, because she good at cooking. She take passion in a cooking… She was planning to go away when her sister-in-law come from foreign. She and her planning to go back on the work programme,” Ms Campbell explained.
It is now hard for the mother of a loving, caring, happy and giving daughter to accept the cold reality that her daughter is lying in a morgue, awaiting burial.
