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Money featured in the end to a short love relationship between 31-year-old Allisha Francis and the man who eventually killed her, 42-year-old Orville Scarlett, also called Bull.
Francis reportedly left the father of her three children more than two years ago for a relationship with Scarlett.
The relationship appeared to have gone sour with money contributing to it. Scarlett had come into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some reports to the North Coast Times are that he had received the money from proceeds of an insurance claim while others say his new found fortune came from a win in the Lottery.
However, police sources confirmed that Scarlett reported to the police that Francis had used his bank card and stolen $130,000 from his account. He insisted, in reports to the police and in the case in the court later, that the money was different from funds he had been giving Ms Francis over months of their relationship.
Francis was arrested and charged for simple larceny. She was found guilty and sentenced with the court requiring her to make restitution or she would serve a custodial sentence.
She spent a week at the Discovery Bay lock up in St Ann after sentencing, as her family members put together the money to repay Mr Scarlett. He was paid in full.
That was 14 months ago. Their relationship had by then ended.
Family members say Ms Francis had gone on with her life, taking care of her children and had cut off all communication with Scarlett. However others said it appeared Scarlett was trying to resume a relationship and that, spurned, he decided to attack.
The attack, it appears was well planned. Observation of the wounds indicates a very sharp machete was used.
Scarlett, who had some difficulty walking, chartered a car from Watt Town to Linton Park. The man who drove him there did not know he had a machete or what his plans were.
Then he struck as the Francis family returned home. He went to a friend and confessed he had done it.
Meantime, The Times has asked police about whether they are trying to find people who committed a crime when they chopped Scarlett to death. People in the community and the wider Jamaica as well as many on social media have said he deserved to die and that is the end of the matter.
Detective Corporal Laing, at the Brown’s Town Police station, told the North Coast Times that police are investigating the death of Scarlett.
He said it was an ongoing investigation.
