Contracted hitman says he wanted work at supermarket

Denvalyn Minott, the man who said he was contracted by Everton 'Beachy Stout' McDonald to murder his wife, says he was offered the task after seeking employment at the businessman's supermarket. 

Minott, otherwise called 'Bubbla' told the Home Circuit Court this morning that on his second meeting with Beachy, he asked him for a job to offload goods from delivery trucks.

However, he said McDonald replied: "mi have a betta work fi yuh".

"That is when he tek out a phone from his pocket. He then go onto his phone, show me a lady on the phone and he say 'I want har dead," Minott recalled. 

The convicted fisherman said he had never seen the woman before and told 'Beachy' that he could not carry out the act as he had never killed. However, the businessman demanded a price, he said. 

"I say big man me cannot do it. I don't know how fi do dem ting deh," the witness testified, adding that Beachy offered $3 million to which he agreed. 

Minott broke down in tears as he gave his testimony. 

McDonald and his co-accused Oscar Barnes are currently on trial for the murder of his second wife, 32-year-old businesswoman Tonia McDonlad. 

Tonia's partially burned body was found with its throat slashed in her car, which had been set ablaze along a deserted road in Sherwood Forest in Portland on July 20, 2020.

Minott, who is the second witness for the prosecution int he case, pleaded guilty to Tonia's murder later that year and is serving a near 20-year prison term. 

In an statement, he reported that  McDonald promised to pay him $3 million to murder his wife but that he sub-contracted another man to do the killing.

- Tanesha Mundle

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