A former firefighter has pleaded guilty to the murder of his mother-in-law, whose mutilated body was discovered buried in a secluded area of Claremont, St. Ann, earlier this year.
The accused, 41-year-old Dwayne Simpson, a former member of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, appeared before High Court Justice Simone Wolfe-Reece in the St. Ann Circuit Court, where he entered a guilty plea to the capital charge.
Simpson was charged with the murder of 63-year-old Maxine Parkinson, who went missing on the night of Monday, January 8, 2024. When she failed to return home, relatives filed a missing person report, prompting an investigation by the police.
Two days later, Simpson was taken into custody. During questioning, he led investigators to a remote area in Nine Palm, near Harmony Vale, where Parkinson’s body was discovered buried with multiple chop wounds.
Following the grisly discovery, Simpson was formally charged with murder. He is scheduled to be sentenced next week.
