Jamaica police deny ‘shabby’ investigation into US woman’s murder

At least one senior investigator is rubbishing claims that his colleagues have been “shabby” in their probe of the murder of 26-year- old US woman Desiree Gibbon.

The victim’s mother, Andrea Gibbon, described the local cops of being shabby, and claimed that she had to come to Jamaica and recover her daughter's cell phone.

But the Loop News police source argued that since investigators have the deceased phone number, which has been used to download necessary information, it did not warrant them getting hold of the instrument.

"Finding the phone is neither here nor there to us as we had the young lady's phone number in our possession," the cop who did not want his identity to be made public said.

No one has been arrested in connection with the murder, but the police say the investigation is going satisfactorily.

The Jamaican police is being chastised in the foreign media for “mishandling” the case of the aspiring model.

Andrea Gibbon, who lives in New York, was speaking with the New York-based PIX 11 News just days after returning from Jamaica where she spent more than a week.

She told the reporter it was a “nightmare” as she and her husband “battled hurdle after hurdle” to ensure their murdered daughter’s body could be returned home.

Gibbon told the reporter that her daughter knew her killer as she received a phone call minutes before she left her hotel room.

She noted that Desiree was killed just four days before was to return to New York. She said her daughter’s “brutalised body” was found about 20 minutes from her hotel along the roadside with the throat slashed and bruises throughout her body and wrist.