A US Navy officer was charged last week after being accused of hiring hitmen to kill a Jamaican politician’s daughter and the child’s mother.
Leoda Bradshaw is facing charges including capital murder and kidnapping in connection to the death of Phillip Paulwell’s 10-month-old daughter, Sarayah Paulwell, and 27-year-old Toshyna Patterson, the Jamaica Observer reported, citing the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Paulwell, 61, is a Member of Parliament for East Kingston and Port Royal and also has a child with Bradshaw. The two were reportedly in a relationship together, officials say, and Bradshaw touts him as her spouse.
Authorities alleged that when Bradshaw arrived in Jamaica in early September, she planned the crime for three individuals to carry out. They were identified as Richard Brown, Roshane Miller, and her cousin, Roland Balfour.
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“This plan also contained part payment (which had been made) of a certain amount of money by Leoda Bradshaw to the men for the successful execution of the plan,” the ODPP said, the Observer reported.
The victims, Sarayah and Patterson, were abducted from their home in Kingston on Sept. 9, after she entered an SUV, and taken about 20 minutes away to St. Andrew, per the outlet. This is where the men allegedly murdered them.
Per a timeline from CVM Television, Paulwell announced a $500,000 reward for information about the victim’s whereabouts days after they were reported missing. Last week, police said the duo was murdered, and their bodies were burned. According to the television station, the indictment alleges Bradshaw, a U.S. citizen, concocted the plan after she found out Paulwell had a baby with Patterson.
On Sunday, Paulwell released a statement in response to the incident, expressing that he is heartbroken and hoping those involved are “punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
“Nothing could have prepared me for the events…
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