Chilling confession
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October 15, 2026
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A seven-member jury in the Andre Ruddock murder trial in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston on Wednesday watched video recording of the accused appearing composed as he admitted to detectives that he cut the throat of 39-year-old Taneka Gardner on October 17, 2021 at Pathways International Restoration Kingdom Ministries in Albion, St James.
Ruddock was heard in the video telling the detectives at a police station in St James, in the presence of two justices of the peace, that he was instructed by his now deceased pastor, Dr Kevin Smith, to carry out the gruesome, human-sacrifice killing of Gardner at the church.
In the video, Ruddock was seen calmly answering the 42 questions posed to him by detectives as he gave them a picture of what led up to him cutting Gardner’s throat.
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