Living in fear and running from murder -mother recounts flight as ‘monster’ son killed girlfriend

Sandra Alleyne

Spots of blood still stain the Diamond, East Bank Deme-rara home where seventeen-year-old Angela McAllister was slaughtered last Thursday with a cutlass and spade by her boyfriend.

Sandra Alleyne tells the chilling story of watching her son Joshua Alleyne, 18, batter the teenager with a spade before chopping her to death in the yard. Sitting next to Sandra, her 13-year-old daughter chimes in that she held on to Angela’s hair and tried to pull her out of the house but her brother was also pulling the young woman’s hair as he beat her with the spade. In the end, she gave up and ran and told her mother to run along with her brother- who has a broken leg -because “Joshua woulda kill we too.”

They blame neighbours for not coming to help Angela as Sandra, 53, said she stood in the middle of the road hollering for help. There was still evidence of Angela’s blood in the yard and they spoke of how her blood was