Murdered man’s sister still afraid of Compay

As long as Daniel “Compay” Dick Trimmingham is alive, the sister of the man he murdered six years ago will always be scared of him.{{more}}

On her 51st birthday, last Wednesday, July 1, Noreen Jackson told SEARCHLIGHT how disappointed she was that the London based Privy Council determined that Trimmingham should not be hanged for murdering her eldest sibling, Albert “Bertie” Browne.

On Monday, June 22nd, the Law Lords of the Privy Council determined that Trimmingham’s beheading and burial of Browne in the Carriere was not the “worst of the worst” of a criminal act, hence not deserving of the death penalty.

“I know my brother didn’t deserve that kind of death. He got a terrible death. I will have to live with it but it is not fair,” said the widow of three years.

She told SEARCHLIGHT that she recalled how Trimmingham watched her while she was giving evidence during his trial, and the fear that filled, and still fills her heart.

“If he ever gets out, he will kill again,” she said.

Trimmingham has now been removed from death row and will spend the rest of his natural life in prison.

Jackson told SEARCHLIGHT that the family is still grief stricken by her brother’s death because he was a father to all of them.

She said that their father died when she was only ten years old and as the eldest of the eight children, “Bertie” assisted their mother in caring for all of them.

“He was a father and a brother – everything to me,” she said with a sigh from the yard of her Carriere home. (KJ)