Shaundae Jones’ mother has uncovered an essay written by her son before his death criticising the investigation into the murder of Canadian teenager Rebecca Middleton.

Marsha Jones said her son - whose own slaying in April 2003 has yet to be solved - penned the assignment while a student at Bermuda Institute. He wrote: “My case is on the Rebecca Middleton case and how it was all messed up.”

The essay - which Ms Jones intends to pass to Rebecca’s mother Cindy Bennett, whom she met for the first time this week - describes how the case was handled by the Government’s top two legal advisers at the time, Solicitor General William Pearce and Attorney General Elliott Mottley.

Shaundae, who was fatally shot at Dockyard at the age of 20, criticised Mr. Mottley for charging suspect Kirk Mundy with being an accessory after the fact of Rebecca’s 1996 murder before the results of DNA tests were known.

Mundy was sentenced to five years jail after admitting the charge; a second suspect in the case, Justis Smith, was acquitted of murder in 1998.

Shaundae concluded: “In the end, a young girl is murdered and no one has been prosecuted for it.”

Ms Jones, from Warwick, told The Royal Gazette: “He was 13 or 14 when he wrote it. He had an essay to do at school; it was in English class and he had to pick a subject out of the newspaper, read up on it and give his opinion and he chose Becky’s case.”

The grief-stricken mum, who is still urging Police to find her son’s killer almost four years after his death, discovered the hand-written sheets of paper when cleaning out her basement about 18 months ago.

“I did remember him doing it. He got a good grade. We discussed it. He wanted me to explain: ‘Why is this momma?’. I said this young lady came here and told him how they just bungled the case. He was quite upset about it. He said: ‘They messed up momma, they messed up big time’.”

Ms Jones, a nursing aide at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute, was in Supreme Court yesterday to support Rebecca’s family as they tried to get a Government decision not to reopen the case overturned.

She said she and Mrs. Bennett exchanged contact details and planned to stay in touch. “She’s going to get a copy of the essay. She was really taken with the thought of how this could turn out like this,” said Ms Jones. “Right from the beginning we hit it off and we have an understanding of each other’s grief. She kept saying she was so appreciative of me coming and I was glad I went.”