Fiery feud
GREVILLE HEADLEY assisting police in investigations into the fire that resulted in fourth degree burns for his brother Michael. (Nigel Browne)
By Mike King | Thu, January 26, 2012 - 12:11 AM
AN EARLY MORNING family dispute at Country Park Towers, St Michael, yesterday ended with a 38-year-old carpenter battling for his life after being doused with an inflammable liquid and set afire.
Michael Jefferson Albert was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) just after 7 a.m. with severe burns to his body. His brother, 27-year-old Greville Headley, was also detained at the QEH with burns to his neck and hand. However, his condition was described as not being life-threatening.
Neighbours reported hearing a loud quarrel in the two-storey National Housing Corporation (NHC) unit prior to the incident.
“I hear them quarrelling and then I heard someone shouting out, ‘Yuh catch afire me!’ and when I look out, I see Jeff [Albert] running with the fire all over he,” an eyewitness told the DAILY NATION.
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So he was set afire AFTER being doused with an inflammable liquid AND he was battling for his life AFTER receiving non-life threatening injuries??
Seriously??
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Comment LinkA fight in de projects!
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Comment LinkThese people should be living at themselves or in the woods. I would be very upset if they were renting my place and because they can’t settle a dispute civilly, they cause me to lose my property. They could have burnt out an entire government unit or complex at a time when people are begging for a place to live.
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Comment LinkI find today that people have no care for life .Many trivialise life and living .Yes you are here and gone tomorrow but why hasten the time of another human? We watch too many North American antics. Forgiveness and sorry are dead words. We have taken God out of the picture so worse will happen . We have no love of self or other fellow men in our hearts .Just hatred .We spout these so called conscious lyrics in songs but refuse to live by them .
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Comment LinkThese people does watch too many movies! Pack your things and get ready for the hotel at Dodds!
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Comment LinkWhat struck me more than anything, was a picture i saw in another news media, which showed the guy who was burnt to a crisp (90% of his body) Standing with some type of blanket over his shoulders, and i still don’t believe my eyes, a Police Officer with a large Notepad taking a statement from him. I would really like to know what the they teach them at RPTC. that scene still has me saddened.
perhaps i am looking for too much from people who care too little. could that not have taken a back seat to the man’s injuries and should he not have been made comfortable until the ambulance/Paramedics arrived?? and subsequent to that i heard that he had died, which i expected anyway.
Rochelle!!!please understand what you read, before you comment-this guy’s injuries were life threatening .HE DIED it is his Brother who doused him that had the non-life threatening injuries to his neck and back.
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Comment Link@ Dr. Tony Waterman - I will willingly concede that I was dead wrong in my initial assessment of this article. However, having sustained burn injuries myself I can gladly point out that you are dead wrong in your assessment that the pictured man is the victim - those injuries are not life threatening and given the the wounds are pink and not white there is no permanent damage. Given these facts, I would like to point out to you that the pictured male is the assailant.
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