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Lawyers for Gabriel King's mother to challenge phone access decision

By Kimone Witter

Lawyers representing the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King are to apply to the Supreme Court for Judicial Review of the judge's decision instructing her to give investigators access to her cellular phone.

Amoi Leon Issa's attorney, Chukwu Cameron, told Radio Jamaica News that he has been instructed by his client to challenge senior parish judge Sasha-Marie Ashley's decision handed down last week in the St James Parish Court.

Ms Issa was told to provide access to her phone by or before November 24, as part of the probe into the January 13 murder of her son.

The judge rejected Mr. Cameron's request for his client to be present during the police's access to the phone and the extraction of any data.

But she granted a request for any legal representative of Ms Issa and a third-party computer technician to be present for the extraction as observers only, on condition that they do not attempt to direct what information may be extracted by the police.

Gabriel King was reportedly abducted from his mother along the Tucker main road in St. James.

He was later found dead in his mother's vehicle, which was abandoned off Fairfield main road in Montego Bay.

The mother had told investigators that she was attempting to navigate a pothole when armed thugs hijacked her vehicle and sped off with her child.