Manchester, Jamaica — Detectives in Manchester on Monday questioned Lawrence Sergeant, father of murdered teenager Shantina Sergeant, within the presence of his lawyer.
Sergeant, together with one other relative, was additionally swabbed for DNA as a part of a forensic investigation into the 13-year-old’s demise.
Shantina’s partially burnt physique was found final week Monday beneath zinc sheets and beside a burnt-out fridge in the back of her household dwelling in Baillieston, Clarendon. A autopsy examination reportedly concluded that she died from blunt power trauma.
Lawrence Sergeant has been named an individual of curiosity within the investigation into his daughter’s homicide and was apprehended in Outdated Harbour, St Catherine, on Friday.
