Jamaica: Alleged cop killer surrenders

(Jamaica Gleaner) Barrington Whyte, the husband of the woman district constable who was killed in a domestic dispute on the weekend, has surrendered to the police.

Top criminal defence attorney Peter Champagnie confirmed that he accompanied Whyte, 52, to the Police Commissioner’s office in St Andrew this morning.

The police report that woman district constable Melissa Edwards-Whyte was chopped and killed during a domestic dispute at her home in Duhaney Park, St Andrew about 9 p.m. on  Saturday.

The following day her husband was listed as a person of interest by the police.