A radio documentary track’s one man’s attempt to find justice for his brother’s death in Jamaica – only to have the UK high commission stand in his way
On 19 April 2018, Steve Walker checked his phone as he left the gym and saw an explosion of missed calls and texts from his brothers and sisters. When he noticed that the only sibling not getting in touch was his older brother Delroy, he knew something terrible had happened to him.
It is hard to listen to Walker’s account of his brief conversation with his sister Jackie as he got on a train to go home that evening. He cries as he remembers how he asked her not to tell him the news straight away, not while he was surrounded by commuters, but to call again in half an hour, when he got home. Later she rang to say their brother, who a few months earlier had retired to Jamaica aged 63, had been murdered.
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