December 22, 2024
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St Mary teacher who allegedly stabbed lover to death has bail extended

Subpoenas have been ordered for two witnesses in a murder case in St Mary.

The witnesses’ statements are required to be certified in order for progress to be made in the case involving a teacher accused of stabbing her common-law husband.

The case was called up in the St Mary Parish Court on Thursday, September 7.

Charged for the offence of murder is Shannon Brown, a teacher from Esher, St Mary.

She is charged in relation to the murder of 37-year-old Patrick Campbell, alias ‘Peas Head’, a businessman of Martins in St Mary.

Campbell and Brown were involved in a common-law relationship, but they did not live together.

As a result of the certification of statements in the case from the two witnesses, Brown’s bail was extended for her to return to court on November 23.

The allegations were that Patrick Campbell and the accused, Brown, got into a dispute that became physical, at about 8:45 a.m. Monday, August 3 in Esher, St Mary. The accused woman lived in Esher and Campbell went to her house where the fight took place.

It is claimed that Campbell was stabbed in the left side of the neck. He died on the way to the Annotto Bay Hospital.