{
  "id": 16286579,
  "title": "Second JP backs claim Ruddock was not forced to give statement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/second-jp-backs-claim-ruddock-was-not-forced-to-give-statement",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-24T05:06:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jamaica Gleaner",
    "slug": "jamaica-gleaner",
    "url": "http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20261024/second-jp-backs-claim-ruddock-was-not-forced-give-statement"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A second justice of the peace (JP) on Friday testified that Andre Ruddock voluntarily gave police a statement in which he allegedly confessed to cutting Taneka Gardner’s throat. The witness corroborated earlier testimony from a colleague that Ruddock was not forced, threatened or harmed, nor offered any inducement to give the caution statement, on October 18, 2021 – a day after Gardner was killed…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}