Michael McLean, STAR writer

Santa Cruz

A 40-year-old woman accused of stabbing her common-law husband to death earlier this month was offered $300,000 bail with one or two sureties when she appeared in the Santa Cruz RM Court last Tuesday.

As a condition of her bail, she is to report to the Santa Cruz Police Station twice weekly.

Angella Wright of Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth, is to return to the Santa Cruz RM Court on June 23 where the matter is set to be mentioned.

The accused had spent over two weeks at the Nain police lock-up and was officially charged by the Santa Cruz police on May 17.

It is reported that sometime after 3 p.m. on May 8, 60-year-old Keeble Dixon, a watchman of Cornwall district in the parish, who was employed to the Holland Estates, was stabbed to death during a dispute with Wright.

Allegations are that the couple was at a bar at La Beadles Plaza in Santa Cruz when an argument developed between them over money. They tussled out of the bar and during a struggle a knife was used to stab Dixon in his chest. He was rushed to the Black River Hospital and later transferred to the Kingston Public Hospital where he reportedly died while undergoing treatment. The following day the accused turned herself in to the Santa Cruz police and was arrested.