The police have charged four men with the murders of two women whose remains were found in a cave last month in Camp Savannah district, Westmoreland.

The Green Island police charged the men on Thursday following investigations into the murders of Raskeeta Clare, 17, of Green Island, and 27-year-old Stacey-Ann Kelly of Orange Bay.

Charged with abduction, murder and conspiracy to murder are Torneil Haughton, otherwise called 'Malta', 23, Jermaine Brown otherwise called 'Yagga', 27, both of Alma district, Westmoreland, Roan Waite, otherwise called 'Gummy', 29, of Cave Valley, and Dermot Kerr, 28, of March Town, both in Hanover.

stab wounds

The facts surrounding the murder are that about 2 p.m. on Monday, August 25, the police, acting on information, went to the cave, where the bodies were discovered. Clare's body had stab wounds to the chest and back while the throat of the other female was slashed.

Both bodies were removed to the morgue for post-mortem. What appeared to be other human remains were also found in the cave. Those remains were taken to the Government Forensic Laboratory for testing and later found to be those of animals.

The four men were subsequently held during police operations carried out in the parish. They are scheduled to appear in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, September 16.