Beachy Stout trial
‘Tek har somewhere else go kill har’
Witness testifies of order from ‘Beachy Stout’ to murder wife
Published:Tuesday | October 10, 2023 | 12:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter
PORTLAND BUSINESSMAN Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald reportedly told the man whom he hired to murder his wife, Tonia McDonald, that he should find somewhere new to kill her.
McDonald allegedly gave that order after the man and his accomplice went to the couple’s home four times to kill the woman in February 2020, but were spotted on one occasion.
The 58-year-old prisoner Denvalyn ‘Bubbla’ Minott’, who is currently serving 19 years and 10 months for his role in the wife’s murder, made the revelation while continuing his evidence in the Home Circuit Court.
“... You affi tek har somewhere else go kill har,” he recalled being told by the businessman, who he said further added, “him need fi get di gal fi dead”.
“Mi say, ‘alright, mi a go try find someweh else’,” the witness said was his response.
McDonald, 68, and his co-accused Oscar Barnes are currently on trial for the 32-year-old businesswoman’s murder in July 2020.
The witness, who claimed he had never killed before and could not carry out the murder, claimed he had asked Barnes to do it and he agreed.
Tonia’s partially burned body was found with the throat slashed in her car, which had been set ablaze along a deserted road in Sherwood Forest in Portland on July 20, 2020.
The witness previously testified that the defendant hired him to murder his wife and gave him specific details about how it should unfold.
According to the witness, McDonald told him that he did not want his wife to be shot. Instead, he wanted her to be stabbed multiple times with her throat slashed and for it to be done at their home.
CHANGE OF PLANS
However, the witness testified yesterday that the businessman told him about the change in plans after he and Barnes went to the couple’s home in February 2020 and were spotted.
The witness said while he and Barnes were waiting to ambush the woman, McDonald called him and told him to “stand down” as they had been seen.
However, the witness said they waited, and while there, they saw when the couple arrived and McDonald signalled him to stand down.
While there, he said McDonald called him and say, “Mi nuh tell yuh say mi nuh waa nuh twosome or nuh threesome? A u alone fi dweet.”
But the witness, who testified that the businessman had insisted on him alone doing the murder, said he assured him that he was alone.
During that same conversation, he said McDonald also told him, “Right now, dat caa gwaan yah suh again cause somebody see unno.”
Besides the attempt that was called off, the witness testified that two of the other attempts were unsuccessful because the helper was home, while on one of the occasions, Tonia did not come home.
The court was told last week Thursday about a fifth attempt in which Tonia was lured to Portland under the guise that she was going to buy a gun which she had asked the witness to source for her.
In the meantime, the witness, detailing how he met Barnes at a fishing beach, said he subcontracted him after he heard him boasting during an argument that he was a gunman and that he had just returned from prison.
The witness further testified that when he told Barnes that he was offered $3 million for the hit, Barnes asked how much he would be getting.
But the witness said he told him, “Bredda, mi just waa yuh do the work fi wi collect.”
Minott will continue giving his testimony today.