How a bomb blast ended 15 years of wedded bliss for Walter and Patricia Rodney

Walter Rodney

The last time Dr Patricia Rodney saw her husband Walter alive was a day like any other in which they synchronized their activities around those of their three children, ages 14, 11 and 9 years old at the time. Though their situation was far from idyllic, their marriage was a happy one that ended far too soon.

Testifying during the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into her husband’s death last week, Mrs Rodney shared some details of her life and 15-year marriage to Walter Rodney.

Patricia and Walter Rodney married in 1965 in London, England and subsequently had three children together. Shaka, was born the