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Ex-employee on trial for 2018 strangulation of businessman Jean-Pierre Rhone

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 1:26 PM
Businessman Jean-Pierre Rhone. - Contributed photo.
Businessman Jean-Pierre Rhone. - Contributed photo.

A trial is currently under way for a man who has been charged for the 2018 death of businessman Jean-Pierre Rhone, who went missing and whose body was found days later partially covered under sand.

Twenty-six-year-old Shamar Clarke, an employee of Rhone, is charged with murder, larceny, and preventing the lawful burial of a corpse.

The trial started on September 16 in the Home Circuit Court before Justice Carolyn Tie-Powell, who is now summing up the evidence.

Clarke is being tried for allegedly strangling Rhone, the general manager of New Home Era and Consulting, in Port Rocky in Port Royal in Kingston on October 17, 2018.

During the trial, Clarke has argued that he acted out of self-defence.

Clarke, who is an ex-employee and who had left the company at the time of the incident, has alleged that Rhone tried to have sex with him when they met up for a business meeting.

Rhone, who had been reported missing on October 17, was found three days later with his body partly covered under sand and his motor vehicle missing.

Clarke is represented by attorneys Lynden Wellesley and Althea Freeman.

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