Father of abandoned ‘Baby Angelica’ found guilty of murdering wife in Jamaica

A father embroiled in an notorious 2009 youngster abandonment case in Toronto is now going through a minimal 15-year sentence in Jamaica after being discovered responsible of murdering his spouse seven years in the past, based on Crown prosecutors.

Former Toronto resident Alphanso Warren was arrested by Jamaican police in 2015. Officers say he stabbed his spouse Stephanie Warren to dying in a Kingston residence throughout an argument on New 12 months’s Eve. 

A key witness testified they noticed the couple combating in an house advanced, says lead Crown prosecutor accountable for the case, Andrea Martin-Swaby.

“[The witness] heard the deceased saying, ‘Do not harm me, do not harm me,'” stated Martin-Swaby.

“[She] repeated that just a few instances till the voice truly light.”

A decide discovered Warren responsible on Might 12 in House Circuit Courtroom in Kingston.

In Jamaica, a homicide conviction carries a minimal sentence of 15 years, with a most sentence of life in jail. Warren will probably be sentenced on Jun. 23.

The trial was initially supposed to begin in 2019, however was postponed to a later date after which confronted further delays as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. Warren initially pleaded not responsible on April 20.

A checkered previous

Warren and his spouse moved to Jamaica shortly after they have been convicted of abandoning their eight-month-old child, Angelica Leslie, within the stairwell of a parking storage within the space of Finch Avenue and Leslie Avenue on a -14 C night time in January 2008. 

The woman was discovered alone, face down with minor cuts and bruises, however she later recovered and was adopted. Kids’s Help eliminated the couple’s three different kids following the incident. 

Alphanso was sentenced to 22 months in jail, however had spent 11 months in custody awaiting trial and was granted two-for-one credit score and launched. Stephanie was fined underneath the Household Companies and Baby Safety Act.

After their transfer, Jamaican police have been referred to as in early 2012  to research the disappearance of the couple’s two-year-old son. 

They later pleaded responsible to concealing his dying after neighbours found the toddler’s partly decomposed and mummified physique in a suitcase within the Warrens’ Kingston house. 

A pathology report within the case confirmed the toddler probably died of illness, poisoning or asphyxiation, although it was unattainable to make certain of the reason for dying as a result of state of the stays upon examination, the report concluded. 

Neither mother or father was charged within the dying of the kid.