Just over a decade after being released from Dodds Prison having served time for one of Barbados’ crimes that transcended into the realm of folklore, Frank Anderson Carter has died.
The DAILY NATION received news of his death yesterday.
Carter was released from Dodds Prison on December 11, 2015 (along with Anthony “Nagga” Austin), having served 26 years behind bars for the February 19, 1984, murder of Alfred “Uncle Look Up” Morris.
On January 25, 1985, after a trial by jury, then Justice Lindsay Worrell ordered Carter be hanged for the crime, but almost five years later, that sentence was commuted to life in prison. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at the time Barbados’ highest appellate court, said he should serve at least 30 years before being eligible for release.
Carter, who was a deejay at a fete, got into an argument with one of Morris’ sons and his girlfriend on February 18. The incident happened the next day – one-and-a-half sticks of dynamite tossed into the home – and he was picked up by police. Nitroglycerine, the key ingredient in dynamite, was found in his car on a piece of newspaper. Samples were also found at the destroyed home.
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