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Nov 19, 2008 News
Days after the discovery of the body of ex-convict, Rickford Barker, in a cemetery near the Soesdyke main road, a police source has said that the post-mortem results are due today. The source also said that three of the four people held in connection with the suspected vigilante-style killing of Barker have confessed.
The fourth person has maintained his innocence, but an eyewitness is claiming that the fourth man was involved in Barker’s death.
According to police reports, it is believed that Barker was the victim of a vigilante-style beating by individuals who believed that he had broken into a shop in the environs.
Reports have stated that the men who beat Barker released his accomplice before exacting vigilante justice on the ex-convict.
Barker was released from prison approximately one week ago.
A resident of the area said that she heard screams during the night, but assumed that youths in the neighbourhood were playing in the street.
Another resident said that she looked outside at around 05:00 hrs and saw a man, whom she believes was Barker, standing on the roadway near her home.
She said that she overheard someone saying: “Don’t leh he move, wait till the police come fuh he.”
Barker’s semi-nude body was found, at around 06:00 hrs on Saturday last, in the cemetery located near the Soesdyke Public Road. Police reported that the back of Barker’s head bore a gaping wound, and there were also several abrasions on the dead man’s back.
Clothing believed to belong to the dead man was found not far from the body.
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