(AP)The UN's refugee agency on Tuesday called for a full investigation into the abduction and slaying of a human rights activist that has increased worry over crime in this Caribbean country.
Attorney Clover Graham, who was Jamaica's honorary liaison for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, was found at daybreak Sunday with her throat slashed in tall weeds by the Caymanas Polo Club just outside of the capital of Kingston.
Deputy Police Commissioner Glenmore Hinds said detectives are working to establish a motive in the 56-year-old woman's slaying. There have been no arrests.
Four years ago, Graham's son and his girlfriend were also found in a field with their throats slashed after they brought crutches and other medical supplies to men they had accidentally injured in a road crash. Two men were recently convicted of those murders, which were dubbed the "good Samaritan" slayings.
The killing of Graham has sharpened crime fears in this violence-wracked Caribbean country of less than 3 million inhabitants. Most of the violence takes place in rough slums, with tourist resorts largely crime-free.
A U.N. study on the Caribbean released earlier this year said Jamaica has had the world' third-highest murder rate over the past decade, with about 60 murders per 100,000 people. Last year, Jamaica had 1,125 slayings, a roughly 22 percent drop from the 1,442 killings in 2010. A record 1,683 people were killed in 2009.
The Jamaican-born Graham was also a citizen of the United Kingdom, where she lived for many years. In Jamaica, she lived in a middle class section of Spanish Town, a southern city where violent gangs are deeply entrenched and authorities impose frequent curfews.
Graham is survived by husband Rex McKenzie and their two daughters, Arusha, 26, and Zakiya, 23, who is eight months pregnant.