Family Seeks Justice After Dangriga Machete Killing

One week after forty-one-year-old Linden Kelly died from injuries sustained in a machete attack in Dangriga Town, his family is appealing to police for swift justice as concerns over safety grow in the community.

According to police, Kelly was attacked by two men during a confrontation in the Rivas Estate on December nineteenth. Two suspects were initially detained, but no charges have been laid. As the family prepares to lay Kelly to rest, they say the lack of progress in the case has deepened their grief and anxiety.

Kelly’s brother, Austin Williams, said the family feels unsafe knowing those responsible remain at large. “We are looking at people who just killed a man like that and they’re off they’re walking around like killing in Dangriga like It’s legal, you understand?” Williams said in a telephone interview. He added that the situation has been especially difficult for their mother. “And of course my mom, she’s upset. She feels she’s not safe, and she’s still mourning, Sunday is the funeral. This coming Sunday, they will have the funeral service, and of course, she’s still mourning her son’s death and to see that nothing is taking place, she’s very upset.”

Williams accepted that his brother had a troubled past but said that did not justify what happened to him. “In the past, yes, he got in an incident and no one is saying, we are taking up for him or saying he’s a good guy, or, because everyone to their family, they’re good. We don’t know what he’s doing or what he was doing on the streets, but yes, he did serve his time and that’s something that you can probably compare it to,” he said.

The family say they are frustrated with the pace of the investigation. “Everything is frustrating to be honest with you because, we’re just getting from the police saying that they DPP is the problem. And we don’t know. It’s not like we’re inside there doing the job, so we don’t really know who to blame,” Williams said.