Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Farmer loses all to fire

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WHEN A FORMER death row inmate saw the ashes of his wooden home at Turners Hall, St Andrew, he kept repeating a Bible verse he learnt in prison so he could shake off the feeling of taking the law into his own hands.

Last Friday, Patrick Greaves was eating chips he had bought from a shop in the district when he received a call that his house was on fire.

Greaves said by the time he got there, the house was destroyed.

“You know how bad I felt when I saw the house on fire? Things that my stepmother gave me that I cherished dearly were gone,” he said.  (SB)

Please read the full story in today’s Midweek Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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