A Jamaican woman who claims that her husband was killed in Spanish Town, St Catherine in 2011 after he refused to pay extortion money to gangsters
who had targeted his scrap metal business, is facing deportation, along with her children, from Canada, where she reportedly fled after the tragedy.
The woman has contended that the lives of the family members will be in danger if they are forced to return home, where threats from the same gangsters still exist.
Natasha Gordon-Jones, the mother of three, whose husband, Everton Jones, was reportedly murdered, has applied for refugee status, and had a follow-up hearing on Tuesday with Canada Border Service Agency, with deportation being a very likely outcome.
Media reports in Canada indicate that she has been working in that country since she obtained a permit to do so.
Two of her children are graduating from educational institutions this week, and her eldest child is married to a Canadian.
At the last hearing with Canada Border Service Agency in February, the family was allowed to remain in the country until the younger children had completed their education. But with that goal about to be accomplished, Gordon-Jones last week received notification from the agency of the new hearing.
She has expressed fear of returning to Jamaica, claiming that the family started getting death threats after her husband’s murder, and fled Jamaica to stay with a relative in Canada.
