The police are confirming that a woman in Portmore, St Catherine, has made a police report claiming that a St Mary man who was arrested in New York on September 14 for slashing his wife’s throat is her father.
The woman has reported that her father also murdered her mother in 2005.
Communication chief with the Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), senior superintendent Stephanie Lindsay confirmed to the North Coast Times on Saturday, September 24, that a woman from Portmore made a report to the Greater Portmore Police Station on Friday, September 16, after recognizing Beresford Ashley on the Internet as her father.
The woman also reported that she had not seen her father since the murder of her mother 11 years ago.
Supt Lindsay explained that the police were now trying to look at the case and see if a link can be established to determine if this was the same man that was charged in the United States.
However, she could not confirm if the man, Beresford Ashley had done a name change as previous reports had suggested and was now living in the United States.
She further stated that by later this week, she would be speaking to the relevant officers as to an update into the 2005 murder case of the Portmore woman’s mother.
It is not clear whether the Jamaican police have formally contacted New York or Federal law enforcement on the matter.
According to reports from the New York Daily News, “police charged a man (Beresford Ashley) with murder Wednesday (September 14), hours after his wife was found dead in her car with her throat slashed in Brooklyn.”
Ashley’s wife, 45-year-old Karen Ashley was discovered in the driver’s seat of a gold 2004 Nissan Maxima parked on Blake Ave. near Drew Street in East New York on Tuesday night, September 13, after police responded to a 911 call for an unconscious person in a car, the New York Daily News reported.
It was reported that the woman, who lived in the area and worked as a nurse, sustained multiple knife wounds to her throat and some to her body.
Reports to the North Coast Times are that Ashley is from a community near Richmond, St Mary. The Times could not confirm reports that a man fitting Ashley’s description had been involved in a murder in Jamaica and had migrated and changed his name.
