Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of two British-Jamaicans who were murdered in Jamaica, to which they had retired, earlier this year.
Halford Anderson, 75, otherwise called ‘Charlie’, and his wife, 71-year-old Florence, otherwise called ‘Gayle’, both of Mount Pleasant in Portland, Jamaica, and Gorton, Manchester, England, were found dead in June at the home they had retired to.
Their funeral took place at the Gorton Monastery in Britain on Friday.
While police investigations continue in Jamaican, no one has so far been charged with the killing of the two retirees.
The Andersons had been married for 55 years.
They were laid to rest at the Gorton Cemetery.
On June 22, the quiet Mount Pleasant community in the Hope Bay area of Portland, Jamaica was greeted with the disaster of the partially burnt bodies of the Andersons, with their throats slashed and their home also partially burnt, in the community. A postmortem report confirmed that they had also been shot.
The deceased were cited as good, kind and hardworking community members who had just returned home for good after spending most of their years in Britain.
They were lauded at the funeral service for their kind human and community spirit, which made them standouts in the community where they met their death.
An accused person is presently before the courts in Jamaica on charges of illegally taking millions of dollars from the Mr Anderson’s bank accounts shortly before the couple retired to Jamaica, which the couple reportedly discovered and were pursuing at the time of their murder.
However, there has so far been no success in respect of any prosecution relative to the killings.
