Unconfirmed reports are circulating that the brother of popular and influential Jamaican entertainer Elehant Man was detained by the police in relation to the kidnapped and murdered of Jhanel Whyte and Jamaican underground rapper Tyawo McKenzie aka Rap Brown. Jhanel Whyte and Tyawo McKenzie were merely playing the role of good Samasritans never lived to tell the tale of the good deed they were in the process of doing as they were kidnapped, murdered and their bodies dumped in the bushes of Mount Salus, Red Hills, in St. Andrew.


Assistant Commissioner of Police, Les Green, head of the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT) revealed that "The throats were slashed,".


Jhanel Whyte and Tyawo McKenzie had gone to a community off Red Hills Road, on Wednesday, to look for and compensate a motorcyclist and his pillion rider, with whom they had a motor vehicle accident on Tuesday while travelling in Havendale area. The motorcyclist and his pillion rider were taken by the young couple to the University Hospital of the West Indies, where they were treated and released.


Arrangements were made and the following day, the couple went to look for the men. When they did not return home, an alarm was made and the police alerted. The. However, they never returned home.

ACP Green said the bodies which fit the profile of the missing couple, were discovered by a farmer yesterday morning in a bushy crack, on top of Mount Salus.

Mr. Green believes the bodies could have been there for at least 24 hours







SOURCE: The Gleaner