Author: Tyrone Roach
A murder investigation has been launched after 15-year-old Rene Graham was killed in Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park at around 19:20hrs on Sunday, 21st July.
He was born in 1974 to a Barbadian father, Colvin, and a St. Lucian mother, Geneva, in Little Venice Maida Vale West London. As a small child, he was completely mute and found it hard to relate to other people. He had no language and lived entirely in his world. At the age of three, he was diagnosed with Autism the same year his father died in a motorbike accident.
By Tyrone Roach The death of a 15-year-old youngster, Rene Graham, devastated the local community and brought a premature end to the annual Park Lime in locally named Teletubbies Park with a crowd of over a thousand persons liming with friends mainly from the surrounding areas. Many stalls were unable to remove themselves from the area, as it soon became a crime scene. In its Press release, it said, “It is with a heavy heart that the CMA Management Team and members of the Caribbean Music Association (CMA) express their deepest condolences to the family and friends of 15-year-old Rene…
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