Adoma Clarke-Fonrose begged and pleaded with her daughter to have little or nothing to do with her close male friend who showed all the signs of being a controlling and aggressive individual.
Her daughter, Tessa, 20, tried to leave the man but ended up dead, stuffed into a drain running below the Churchill Roosevelt Highway area near the St Augustine Girls’ High School.
Tessa’s close male friend remained in police custody last night.
A composed Clarke-Fonrose, who spoke to the Express yesterday morning at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, said her daughter lived at Stella Street, Curepe, and was last seen alive on Friday evening walking over to her male friend’s house, which was close by, to do her laundry. Her friend’s house was not far from hers.
That night when she did not return home her relatives made a report to the St Joseph Police Station around 10 p.m.
MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS: Tessa Clarke-Fonrose
The next day around 8.30 a.m. her body was found, with mulitiple stab wounds, stuffed in a drain. Shortly after, the police arrested the main suspect and his brother.
Clarke-Fonrose yesterday described the male friend as ’a possessive young man...and I guess she wanted to get away from him and that is why he did that’.
She described her daughter as a popular girl with lots of friends. She played with a musical band at her alma mater-the St Augustine Senior Comprehensive School.
According to Clarke-Fonrose, anytime her daughter attempted to go out with these friends the man would ’make a fuss’ and insist that he had to go too.
She also recalled that anytime her daughter’s male friend bought her gifts he would break them as soon as he got angry with her, ’and I would tell her... ’listen, that is no relationship’.’
Homicide Bureau officers are continuing investigations.
