A YOUNG British couple were found murdered and their bodies dumped in the Waugh Hill area of Sligoville, St. Catherine, on Tuesday.
The police identified them as Tamaline Bundy-Davis, 17, and her 29-year-old Jamaican husband, Jermaine Davis.
The bodies, with the hands and feet bound with masking tape, were found in bushes by farmers returning from their fields. Both Davises had each been shot twice in the head.
The police said the couple, both white, arrived in the island on November 19.
They were last seen on November 28 heading to Kingston aboard a chartered taxi from Falmouth, Trelawny. They were said to have been on their way to the British High Commission, Trafalgar Road, New Kingston.
"This looks like a vendetta killing," said Det. Supt. Calvin Benjamin, who is in charge of crime in Police Area 5, which covers St. Andrew, St. Catherine and St. Thomas.
The police said that Mr. Davis was deported from the United Kingdom in 1991 but seemed to have made several trips to and from Britain since then. Senior investigators are contacting their counterparts in the United Kingdom to get information on Mr. Davis.
The police suspect that Mrs. Davis had lied about her age in order to marry Mr. Davis. She had apparently led people to believe that she was 18 years old. Relatives of Mr. Davis were questioned yesterday by detectives from the Spanish Town CIB.
The bodies were taken to Roberts Funeral Place, Linstead, St. Catherine for post-mortem examination.
The deaths of the Davises have sparked wide interest in the UK, with reporters from some of the major newspapers calling The Gleaner yesterday for an update.
