- Psychiatric evaluation still not done
Because the psychiatrist has not visited St Ann for a two-week stretch, the teen charged with the gruesome murder of a homeless man from Ocho Rios, has been again remanded into custody.
He was ordered remanded when he appeared in the St Ann’s Bay RM Court on Thursday, April 21. This, as a psychiatric evaluation has not been done on the accused man.
Nineteen-year-old Jonah Robinson was brought before the St. Ann’s Bay Resident Magistrate courts for the murder of Cebert Lawes, alias ‘Iron Man’ on Saturday, March 5.
Robinson was said to be schizophrenic since age 14.
According to Robinson’s attorney, Vincent Wellesley, an order was made by RM Andrea Thomas that the clerk of court should write a letter to the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre, for Robinson to be allowed to see the psychiatrist there.
Robinson was further remanded into custody until May 13.
Reports are that on Saturday morning March 5, an employee of Island Hoppers, near to the Reynolds Pier heard a strange noise and went to locate Lawes, who was a homeless man who frequented the area. The eyewitness saw a man using a stone to repeatedly hit Lawes who was on the ground.
The eye witness prevented Robinson from escaping and he was taken into custody. Police recovered the stone and a stick that was reportedly plunged Lawes’ abdomen.
It is also alleged that Robinson used a piece of metal to “dig out” his own right eye and told police he did not do it alone, because he was possessed.
