Phone tied to Gabriel King murder probe being processed
Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, the commanding officer for the St James Police Division, has promised to seek an update into the ongoing analysis of a phone reportedly connected to the 2022 murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King.
Samuels made the declaration while addressing Thursday's monthly sitting of the St James Municipal Corporation.
"That (phone) is still being processed by our technical persons, so we have not got an update since then, but I will seek to get that as soon as possible. Just remember that investigations take time," Samuels added. He was responding to a query from Councillor Michael Troupe of the Granville division in relation to the progress of the police's investigations into the murder of Gabrielle, who was developmentally challenged.
The phone at the centre of the discussion belonged to the child's mother, Amoy Leon-Issa, who surrendered its access code to the police on September 29, 2023, following an order from the Supreme Court. Leon-Issa previously sought to challenge an order from the St James Parish Court on November 18, 2022, that she should grant the police access to the device, but her efforts were overruled.
Gabriel was reportedly abducted from his mother on January 13, 2022, along the Tucker main road in St James, after assailants dragged Leon-Issa from the motor car in which she and the child were travelling. The assailants then sped off with the vehicle with Gabriel still inside. The vehicle was later found along the Fairfield main road, and the boy's body was found in the back seat with his throat slashed.