Case file not ready in Danielle Rowe murder case
KAYODI SATCHELL, the 30-yearold dental assistant charged with the murder of eight-yearold Danielle Rowe, was, on Thursday, ordered remanded until March 14.
When the matter was mentioned in the Home Circuit Court, the prosecution indicated that the case file was not complete and that it intended to make some material available to the defence on the next court date.
Consequently, a new date was set for further case management.
The second-grade student at Braeton Primary and Infant School in Portmore, St Catherine, was abducted on June 8, 2023, while she waited with her younger brother to be picked up by their mother from school.
According to the account of an eyewitness – a motorist – about 4:30 p.m. that day, he saw a “young female” walking from a derelict building on premises located along Roosevelt Avenue, near the National Stadium in St Andrew.
The child was confirmed to be Rowe.
She walked “on to the roadway and into the path of a motor vehicle”, the witness recounted.
The motorist said he also saw a woman exiting the premises “behind the little girl” and walking “speedily along Roosevelt Avenue in a southerly direction”.
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
The woman was of brown complexion, medium build, about five feet six inches tall, and was wearing a floral top and limegreen knickers pants, said the witness, who told detectives he would be able to identify her if he saw her again.
The motorist told detectives that he signalled the driver of another vehicle to stop as the child wandered on to the roadway.
The second driver, another eyewitness, disclosed i n his account that he heard a car horn tooting “non-stop” and checked his rear-view mirror to see what was happening.
He said he felt when something “faintly touched” the left side of his vehicle, causing him to stop. That was when he saw a female student – still dressed in uniform – lying on the ground.
The witness said he went to her assistance and saw “blood coming from her neck”.
He recounted placing the child in his vehicle, along with her knapsack, and taking her to the nearby Bustamante Hospital for Children “while maintaining pressure to her neck”.
Rowe died at Bustamante Hospital two days later. The police have not yet determined a motive for the killing.
A post-mortem examination on June 19 revealed that her death was caused by an incised wound to the neck.
Attorney-at-law Donnovan Collins is representing Satchell.