JAMAICA-CRIME-Police charge four persons as probe continues into abduction and murders of mother and child.

KINGSTON -- Police have charged four people, including a United States Navy petty officer, in the abduction and killing of the 10-month-old daughter of the Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell and her mother.

Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of crime Fitz Bailey, said that US Navy petty officer Leoda Bradshaw, 34, who also has a child with Paulwell, had been slapped with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, two counts of conspiracy to kidnapping, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of murder.

Bailey said that 27-year-old Toshyna Patterson and her 10-month-old daughter Sarayah Paulwell were 'brutally murdered and their bodies disposed of.

The mother and daughter were abducted from their home on Gilmour Drive in St Andrew on September 9.

The police have also charged Roland Balfour, a 30-year-old assistant graphic designer with two counts of conspiracy to murder, two counts of conspiracy to kidnapping and misprison of felon, while 29 year-old air condition techniccan, Roshane Miller, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy to murder, two counts conspiracy to kidnapping, and...