Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
THE MAN charged with the murder of 59-year-old gay rights activist Brian Williamson, pleaded guilty in court yesterday.
Dwight Hayden, otherwise called 'Dog', a 25-year-old newspaper vendor of 1 Myers Street, Jones Town, Kingston 12, will be sentenced in the Home Circuit Court on May 19.
Dr. Randolph Williams, who is representing Hayden, has applied for social enquiry and psychiatric reports.
Williamson, president and founding member of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, all Sexuals and Gays, was stabbed 77 times in his apartment at 3A Haughton Avenue, in New Kingston, on June 9, 2004. A chest was stolen from the apartment.
Amnesty International has described Williamson's killing as a hate crime.
Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, and Crown Counsel Winsome Pennicooke outlined in detail the facts of the case to Justice Basil Reid.
Miss Llewellyn said that about 7 a.m. on June 9, 2004, Hayden and a man called 'Bomhead' went to Williamson's home and he let them in. The deceased's male housemate said he had seen Hayden come to the house on several occasions.
WILLIAMSON FOUND DEAD
The housemate left the premises and, on his return, found Williamson lying face down in a pool of blood.
Hayden went home and confessed to his child's mother that he and 'Bomhead' had murdered "the white man." Hayden gave a statement to the police on June 11, 2004 in which he said it was 'Bomhead' who demanded money from the deceased and then began to chop him.
Hayden said he gave the deceased a few stabs in the neck but he did not intend to kill him.
