IN an emotional contribution to the House of Assembly yesterday, Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller named the person he said was responsible for ordering the brutal murder of his son, Mario, 11 years ago.

Mr Miller made the revelation during his contribution to a Bill that would allow for the hiring of more Supreme Court judges.

The MP fingered a business consultant by the name of Dion Bowe as the person who not only put the hit out on his son, but also approached him to offer information on how the murder of his son took place, Mr Miller said.

Mario Miller, 28, was found dead with multiple stab and chop wounds – 22 times about the body, and twice in his heart with a 16-inch blade - in bushes near the Super Value food store in Winton.

During his time as Minister in the 2002-2007 Christie administration, Mr Miller had attempted to raise the issue of his son’s murder several times in the House of Assembly.

On those occasions,

members on his side of the aisle would interrupt him and appeal to him to refrain from doing what he did yesterday, name the person he felt was responsible for his son’s death.

“A lot of my colleagues in here dislike when I talk about it, Mr Speaker, because they don’t feel the pain that I feel. They don’t feel the hurt that my family members feel because it hasn’t happened to them. It is interesting how life is,” Mr Miller said.

He then said that some senior statesmen in his party, Arthur Dion Hanna and former PLP Chairman Andrew “Dud” Maynard, both of whom recently lost sons of their own, were able to sympathize with his loss.

“Hon AD Hanna is a hero of mine. I saw him a few weeks ago at a funeral and he hugged me. He said to me, ‘Leslie I see why you raise so much hell for Mario. My son died, he wasn’t killed and (I) can appreciate (what you are going through) because it pained me so much.’

“Dud Maynard last week called me the other day out of the blue and said, ‘I understand why you raised so much hell because even though my son died of a heart attack that pain is so deep, so entrenched in the fibre of your being that you can’t help yourself and sometimes you get carried away’.“

Mr Miller then recounted a run-in with the man he claimed was responsible for ordering his son’s death.

Mr Miller said that about four days after Mario was “butchered” he was going upstairs in the British Colonial Hilton when Mr Bowe stopped him and said, “I know who killed your son.”

“I said, ‘Yeah’?”

“He said, ‘Yeah’.”

“I said, ‘Who’?”

“He said it was some guys out of Jamaica who came to the Bahamas in one boat and they went through Great Harbour Cay. That’s how they escaped. I said, ‘How you know that?’ “

“He said, ‘I know them’ .”

“I found out later, through the police …that the same person who approached me telling me who killed Mario, one of his girlfriends slept with Mario the Friday night before they butchered him that Saturday and he had told her that he was going to have my son killed. She got a job at Phil’s and I tried to put some pressure on my good friend Phil too make sure she appeared in court. She never did appear in court for the case. She left the country. I don’t know where she is today.

“The the police questioned him once. He subsequently left the island for 10 years. I am told that a case of murder is never closed until someone is brought to justice. At least I hope that is the case. That same person that told me he knew who killed my son, who I understand from the police and others that he told his girlfriend that he was going to have my son killed, is back in town now. He calls himself a business consultant. The person I am talking about is a fellow called Dion Bowe.”

The MP said that even 11 years after the incident he is still affected by the tragic and violent death of his son.

“Sometimes it’s like a trance and Mario would come to me and he would say to me, ‘Daddy you think you ga ever get justice for me?’

“Twenty-eight years-old and they took his life. Sometimes I wish (God) would take me away from here so I can be with Mario. His mother would come to me and say, ‘Listen you have these other children you have to live for too.’

“Sometimes at night I would get my shotgun out of the closet and by the time I get to the door and get into the car I would hear mamma voice say, ‘Go back inside you ga only get in trouble. You have these other children to live for.’”

“People don’t know the sadness, the bitterness, the loneliness that parents go through The system is clogged up in every respect, in all cases. Be it civil or criminal. The system is simply clogged up. To many of us justice delayed is justice denied. “