Second Person Pleads Guilty in the Murder of Jamaican Lawmaker and Her Daughter

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A second person has pleaded guilty to their involvement in the kidnapping and murder of the 10 month old daughter of Opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell. The child’s mother,  27-year-old Toshyna Patterson, had also been killed.

Roshane Miller pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of accessory before the fact of murder and two counts of misprision of felony. On Thursday, Richard Brown, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping.

They are to be sentenced on November 15.

Two other persons, a man and the alleged mastermind, Leoda Bradshaw, are charged in the case relating to the murder of 10-month-old Sarayah Paulwell and her mother. The police said that the two were brutally killed and their bodies burned and disposed of after they were  abducted from their home on September 9.

Bradshaw, a US Navy petty officer,  who also shares a child with Paulwell, and lives in the United States was charged on October 13 with two counts of conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of conspiracy to murder, two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of capital murder.