Wife of murdered activist rules out political motive
Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2020 | 12:28 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter
The wife of murdered Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Clarendon South East polling division captain has ruled out politics as the possible reason behind her husband’s gruesome killing, though she cannot pinpoint a motive.
What she knows, however, is that perpetrators took away her best friend and partner, 35-year-old Paul Henry.
While being comforted by friends under a tree on Tuesday, Kemisha Coleman-Henry said that her slain hubby was “the best father ever” and “my everything.”
She said Henry was loved by everyone.
“It come in like a worship dem worship him, di man dem and di boy dem. As you call him, him come to them rescue,” Coleman-Henry said, when asked if she believed the killing was politically motivated.
Henry died leaving three children, two boys and a girl, aged five, eight and 11 months.
Coleman-Henry last spoke to her late husband before he left home to go erect JLP flags.
Henry, who The Gleaner understands was the leader for polling divisions 96 and 97, for years, has been very active in the constituency.
Despite news that he was killed while installing political paraphernalia, his family wants to make it abundantly clear that he was killed at his gate on Flamingo Road in Rocky Settlement.
In the wake of explosions, she rushed outside and found his motionless body on the ground.
The incident occurred shortly before 11 p.m.
Coleman-Henry said that her husband was not robbed.
The matter has been reported the May Pen police, who have launched a probe.
The family say they have been visited by May Pen Mayor Winston Maragh and have also heard from JLP candidate Pearnel Charles Jr.
People’s National Party candidate Patricia Duncan-Sutherland has also condemned the attack.