Top cop upbeat

POLICE are close to making a breakthrough in the murder of Fred Parris, the 90-year-old man who was knifed at Brighton Beach, St Michael, last month.
Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin told the SUNDAY?SUN that investigators had made “significant progress” in that murder that took place four weeks ago.
Family sources said that Parris, the brother of deceased Lady Husbands, was stabbed 29 times.
Parris’ body was found about 5:30 a.m. lying in a small track leading to the popular beach. He was dressed in a short bathing pants and shirt.
Dottin said the police would shortly make an announcement in relation to a successful outcome of that murder investigation.
Last year, there were 31 murders, and Dottin said 21 of those cases had been cleared and some progress was being made in those that remain unsolved.
At a Press briefing last Thursday, Dottin said there were 11 murders per 100 000 compared with seven per 100 000 in 2009.
Dottin also said police investigators were still to apprehend the people responsible for the first murder of 2010, 82-year-old Violet Humphrey, who was killed at her Pickwick Gap, St Michael home on January 3. The proprietress of Humphrey’s Bar was found bound in her bed. (MK)