BeachyStout: Contract killer says he wasn't paid

The Portland fisherman who claims he was contracted to murder the wife of  businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald says he was never paid the $3 million he was promised.

Denvalyn ‘Bubbla’ Minott is currently serving 19 years in prison for his role in the  murder of McDonald's second wife, Tonia.

Earlier in the case, he testified that ‘Beachy Stout’ contracted to him to kill Tonia for a large sum of money, to which he agreed. He later sub-contracted the task to the co-accused in the case, Oscar Barnes. 

However, ‘Bubbla’ today testified before the court that neither himself or Oscar Barnes received any payment. 

Following the businesswoman's death, the contract killer said when he first went to 'Beachy' for the payment, he was told "Yuh think a suh $3 million easy fi work."

Earlier in the trial, Minott testified that on one occasion Beachy brought him a phone and $150,000, but he did not specify the purpose for the funds.

He also testified that he had received $500,000 from the couple which was given to him by Tonia, who was convinced at the time that she was paying for a gun.

However, Minott says he later realised that the money was really to kill her.

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

The married convict who claimed that he and Tonia were in a sexual relationship up to the time of her death, also testified that he was the one who had lured her to her death under the pretence that they were going to collect a gun that she was seeking to avenge her father’s death.

- Tanesha Mundle

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