April 25, 2024
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Statements to be certified in case of St Mary teacher who allegedly stabbed lover to death

There was no progress in the murder case involving a St Mary teacher accused of stabbing her common-law husband to death, when the matter was called up in the St Mary Parish Court on Thursday, April 20.

The prosecution was facing challenges of having some of the statements certified in the case and asked for another mention date.

Charged for the offence of murder is Shannon Brown, a teacher from Esher, St Mary.

She is charged in relation to the murder of 37-year-old Patrick Campbell, alias ‘Peas Head’, a businessman of Martins in St Mary.

Campbell and Brown were involved in a common-law relationship, but they did not live together.

When the case was brought before the court last Thursday, the prosecutions’ request to have another mention date in the matter was granted by senior parish judge Yvette Wentworth-Miller.

The case is to be further mentioned on June 22.

Brown, who is being represented by attorney Ernest Smith, had her bail extended until that time.

The allegations were that Patrick Campbell and the accused, Brown, got into a dispute that became physical, at about 8:45 a.m. Monday, August 3 in Esher, St Mary. The accused woman lived in Esher and Campbell went to her house where the fight took place.

It is claimed that Campbell was stabbed in the left side of the neck. He died on the way to the Annotto Bay Hospital.