Murder/suicide rocks Gasparillo

Christine and Roberts were attempting to reconcile their relationship when she met her death yesterday.

The couple recently became estranged following an incident in which Roberts is said to have burnt up all her clothes including her work uniforms.

They endured a stormy relationship which often became violent and according to relatives there are numerous reports filed at the Gasparillo Police Station against Roberts.

As they always do after a break-up, the couple once again met in an attempt to reconcile. Joseph’s body was discovered yesterday morning by police. She was stabbed several times and her throat was slit.

She was found on a couch inside Roberts’ Parforce Road Extension, Gasparillo home.

Roberts’ uncle Roland King was on his way home from work and it was he who raised an alarm after hearing a voice crying out for help inside Roberts’ house. “I didn’t make him out,” a distraught King told Newsday. “I hear the person in the bathroom calling for water. I say, ‘who are you?’, and he said, ‘is Keyon’. All he was saying was, ‘bring water, throw water on me’. I got water and threw it on him and called my mother and the police,” King said.

Roberts, a construction worker reportedly set himself on fire after murdering Joseph.

Police said that while Roberts was in a tumultuous relationship with Joseph, he was still with Leisha Andrews, mother of his children threemonth- old Kerdeen and three-year-old Kaydeen.

Yesterday, Andrews told Newsday: “He used to sleep by me but he was a confused and frustrated man. He wanted to tie the knot with me but she (Joseph) would not leave him.” Andrews said she and Joseph often crossed swords over the phone.

“On Saturday when I talked to him, Keyon told me he was going to kill that girl (Joseph) and then himself.

I kept telling him that is not the way to go because he has children. I tell him I have children for him and that we should make a commitment.

But he was frustrated as that other woman did not want to give him up. She still went back to him although he burnt up all her clothes,” Andrews said.

Joseph’s grieving mother Roxanne, 45, and stepfather Peter Boatswain, 44, disclosed that they often begged her to leave Roberts, but she was smitten. “She with him since she was 16. She was too harden.

He was not nice...he was possessive and abusive.

They were always fighting,” the weeping mother said. The bodied were removed to the Forensic Science Centre in St James for autopsies.

Investigations are continuing.