Jamaica's Police Commander Condemns Vigilante Justice

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Jamaica's top police commander Owen Ellington, on Tuesday condemned a recent surge of killings by vigilante mobs in Jamaica, reminding citizens that taking the law into their own hands is a serious crime.

The statement from Police Commissioner Owen Ellington came two days after a crowd of furious residents in the southern city of Portmore fatally beat and stomped Dwight Lester, a 29-year-old mason, after he was allegedly caught breaking into a house in the middle of the night.

Ellington warned
Every case of mob killing is classified as murder and will be thoroughly investigated by police so that those responsible are arrested and charged. Jamaicans should have every confidence in the justice system.

Jamaica's justice system has a backlog of more than 400,000 unresolved criminal cases, and confidence in the police is typically low in poor communities, which is one of the world's most violent countries even though the tourist resorts are virtually untouched by crime.

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