50-year-old man held in connection with murder of Khanice Jackson

A 50-year-old man listed as a person of interest in the murder of  20 year-old Khanice Jackson, accounting clerk of a Portmore address is now in police custody.

He has been identified as Robert Fowler otherwise called ‘Backra’ a mechanic of Portmore, St. Catherine.

The police say Fowler was picked up in the Half-Way-Tree area in St Andrew this afternoon.

He’s to undergo questioning.

Jackson, who is from Manchester Avenue in Independence City, Portmore, St Catherine had been missing since Wednesday, March 24.

According to a missing person report, the accounting clerk was last seen leaving her home for work and had not been seen or heard from since. 

The decomposing body of Khanice Jackson was found this morning in an open lot near the Portmore Fishing Village also in St Catherine.

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