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Mum alone as last son shot dead

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Two-and-a-half years after burying one son, Norma Stuart has to bury her last child.

Her son, Canute Hiran Ward, 36, also known as “Big Yosh”, was gunned down on Monday night in Niles Road, Farm Road, St Peter.

His is the 38th murder for the year.

His brother Dwayne “Lil Yosh” Ward was killed in a police involved shooting in June 2018.

Stuart said Canute, the father of three children, two boys and a girl, and formerly of Darrell’s Hill, Christ Church, was a very quiet no-nonsense person. (RA)

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