POLICE Constable Rushon Hamilton was Saturday charged with murder in the case of kidnapped 14-year-old Jhaneel Goulbourne, based on a ruling by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which had reviewed a case file containing allegations against the cop.

Hamilton has been locked behind bars since November last year, days after the teenager was kidnapped by armed men at her gate at Harbour View in East Kingston. The child had told officers at the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) that Hamilton had carnally abused her in the barrack room of the Elletson Road Police Station, the headquarters of the Kingston East Police Division.