A decision on the next steps in the murder cases of Justin Dilly Manderson and Eva Glee Ebanks is yet to be made as the director of public prosecutions is said to still be reviewing both cold cases, the RCIPS has confirmed.
Manderson’s murder hit the eight-year mark on 1 Oct., and last week marked 27 years since Ebanks was killed under suspicious circumstances on Cayman Brac.
Both cases had been under review by the RCIPS Serious Crime Review Team for some time and arrests were made in both cases, one in August and the other last year.
However, following those arrests, no further steps have been taken as the DPP is still mulling how to progress with the cases.
Eva Glee Ebanks case
In August, police announced a breakthrough in the Ebanks case after a 76-year-old man was arrested for her alleged murder.
He remains on bail.
The 35-year-old mother of seven was killed when she was struck by a vehicle on 16 Oct. 1997.
The investigation in the Ebanks case, code-named Operation Lavender, has been led by Detective Constable Mike Lewis.
At a 1999 coroner’s inquest into her death, the jury returned an open verdict, meaning the evidence they heard was insufficient to determine the cause.
Her family always believed there was something sinister behind her untimely death.
Ebanks’s death was one of the cases featured in the Cayman Compass special investigative series ‘Cold Case Files’, which was conducted in partnership with the RCIPS.
As a result of the series, the police were able to gather additional information from witnesses for some of the cases featured.
Justin Dilly Manderson case
Manderson’s 1 Oct. 2016 killing was one of the first cases to be featured in the Compass ‘Cold Case Files’ series.
Last August, police announced that a suspect in the West Bay father’s murder had been arrested.
The 28-year-old-man from West Bay was arrested on suspicion of accessory after the fact of murder.
Police said that suspect was “believed to have misled the police throughout the course of the investigation, where then 24-year-old Justin Manderson was shot at the front of a shopping plaza located on West Bay Road”.
After the shooting, Manderson was transported to the Cayman Islands Hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
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