Family and friends of Toshyna Patterson and her 10 month-old daughter Sarayah Paulwell, who is also the child of Jamaican lawmaker Phillip Paulwell, held a memorial for the mother and daughter pair on Saturday, months after they were abducted in September.
Scores of people gathered at the Jamaica Restoration Breakthrough PHD Ministries in Portmore, St. Catherine, to honor the slain pair.
Twenty-seven-year-old Patterson was remembered as a loving, caring mother and a kind friend.
Patterson was a past student of the Rock Hall Basic School, Rock Hall All-Age, and Jonathan Grant High School. She also attended the National Academy and obtained a diploma in business administration before pursuing studies at The UWI, Mona.
She founder a pest control company, ChemPest Company Limited, in 2019, which she ran up until she and her daughter were killed.
Her daughter Sarayah was described as special and jovial. The family also expressed thanks for the overwhelming support it has received.
Patterson and Sarayah were abducted outside their St. Andrew home on September 9, then taken to a section of East Kingston, where they were killed and their bodies burnt.
Accused face the court
Four people were charged in relation to the abduction and subsequent murder of the mother and daughter.
Leoda Bradshaw, a former partner of Phillip Paulwell, and her cousin Roland Balfour were charged with murder and other offences. They have been remanded until March 6, 2024.
The other two men that were implicated in the double murder were sentenced last month.
Richard Brown, a 31-year-old graphic artist from Kingston, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on each of the two counts of murder.
He was also sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison on each of the two counts of kidnapping of the mother and daughter. The sentences are to be served concurrently and he has been ordered to serve 20 years before he is eligible for parole.
Brown’s accomplice, Roshane Miller, was sentenced to serve seven years and 10 months for each count of accessory before the fact to murder; two years and 10 months for each count of conspiracy to kidnap; and one year and 10 months for misprision of felony. The sentences are to run concurrently.
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