AfriKa CRY BLOOD

by MARIA BRADSHAW

A DIARY ENTRY supposedly written by I’Akobi Maloney on the day he reportedly jumped off an 80-foot cliff in St Lucy to his death was presented to the coroner’s court yesterday.

Police handwriting expert Nola Murphy read out the entry to the court which was written on pages June 17 and June 18, in the black diary said to have been recovered from a black haversack he had on the day he died.

Murphy, who carried out a handwriting analysis of the diary with a specimen of another document written by Maloney and bearing his signature, testified that it was highly probable Maloney wrote the diary entry.

In it was written: (more…)

SEVEN WITNESSES took the stand when the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of I’Akobi Maloney started at the Coroner’s Court in Roebuck Street, St. Michael, yesterday.

Coroner Faith Marshall-Harris also revealed that part of the inquest would include a visit to the scene at Landlock, St Lucy, where Maloney died, and the testimony of a handwriting expert to determine the contents of a diary claimed to have been Maloney’s.

Maloney, 23, was found floating in the water at Landlock on June 17 a few hours after resigning from his job at the nearby Arawak Cement Plant.

Attorneys-at-law Andrew Pilgrim and David Comissiong are representing the Maloney family.

The inquest resumes on Monday.