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St. Thomas man charged in connection with murder of Samara Bristol remanded

November 27th, 2021

A St. Thomas man charged in connection with the murder of Samara Bristol has been remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison at Dodds.

This after he appeared this morning in the Supreme Court before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes.

Police say 54 year old Roger Delisle Sealy of Airy Cot, St. Thomas, was not required to plead to the indictable charge of murdering Samara Bristol between November 16th and 21th.

30 year old Bristol, who had dual Barbadian and American citizenship, was reported missing on November 16th by her mother Samantha Bristol of Queen’s, New York.

Her body was eventually discovered on November 21st in an area near the Mangrove Landfill in St. Thomas.

Police say Sealy, who was remanded to Dodds Prison, is now set to reappear in the District ‘D’ Magistrates Court on December 10th.

He also faces two separate counts of assaulting two officers and resisting arrest on November 17th.

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