Three in custody over murder of Sophia boy

Isaiah Smartt

Three persons are in police custody in connection with the murder of eight-year-old Isaiah Smartt, whose lifeless body was pulled out of a trench in Sophia last week, Commander of ‘A’ Division Marlon Chapman said.

Smartt, a pupil of the F E Pollard Primary School was pulled out of a trench located a short distance away from his Block ‘E’ Sophia home last week Tuesday.

He had been missing for a day and family members made several searches but came up empty handed.

The police began to treat Smartt’s death as a murder following the results of a post-mortem examination which