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MONTH: July-August 2007

Seeking killer of dolphin advocate

 

tThe St. Lucia government has hired nine British detectives to try to solve the August 2006 murder of dolphin advocate Patricia Lee, 60, London Daily Telegraph writers Paul Henderson and Richard Savill reported on May 14, 2007.

Lee, from Devon, England, moved to St. Lucia in 1994 to run a yacht charter business and restaurant with her boyfriend Bernard Haddican, who died in 2003.

"Lee's body was found after she failed to turn up at a memorial service for the husband of a close friend," Henderson and Savill wrote. "Two weeks after Lee's disappearance an anonymous caller told police where to look for her. Within 24 hours her remains were found in a shallow grave."

"Lee was a volunteer for the St. Lucia Animal Protection Society, an organisation that had a member murdered three years ago," Henderson and Savill noted. "Jane Tipson, found slumped over the wheel of her car after being shot in the neck, had feared for her life because she was protesting against the establishment of 'swim with dolphins' centers on the island. Her murder has never been solved."

ANIMAL PEOPLE reported in detail on the Tipson case in October 2003.

At least 74 people have been murdered on St. Lucia within the past two years, many of them believed to be victims of contract killings.