A man charged for a brazen middle-of-town murder of his former lover in Ocho Rios has pleaded guilty.
Charged for the murder of Alisa Garey, is twenty-one-year-old Ryan Edwards of Steer Town in the parish.
Edwards pleaded guilty to the murder, today, Friday, October 20, in the St Ann Circuit Court. His attorney Nathan Geddes Morrison told the North Coast Times that Edwards was truly remorseful and wanted to help the family heal.
Edwards is to be sentenced on November 2, by high court judge Dale Palmer, who is presiding in the St Ann Circuit Court.
Family members of the deceased, Alisa Garey told the North Coast Times they are glad that justice will be served.
Edwards was charged after he stabbed his ex-lover to death, just moments after she had gone to the Ocho Rios police station, to make a report about him last year.
Garey was reportedly walking along the roadway in the vicinity of Champion supermarket, in Ocho Rios, in the company of her mother when an altercation developed between Edwards and one of the females. Edwards pulled a knife from his waist and stabbed Garey, as several stunned people looked on. Edwards then attempted to escape but was apprehended by the police.
Garey was pronounced dead at hospital.
