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“When mi hear anybody seh dat dem heart ripped out, a last night I understand what it felt like. Anyweh him gone, him gone wid it, because mi nuh see myself a come back from this,” cried, Nastascia Tomlinson-Britton, wife of slain taxi operator, Keeno Britton.

Britton was stabbed to death, allegedly by the driver of a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus on Monday night.

Tomlinson-Britton told THE STAR that she had spoken to him just minutes before she died.

“I was at home, I just spoke to him about fifteen minutes before it happened. My son was at school and I called him about after seven and I said to him, ‘honey, yuh see Jay,’ and he said to me, ‘remember that Jay is at training, I going to Duhaney Park when I come back I’m going to pick him up’,” she said.

“In the next fifteen minutes they called me tell me that they stabbed him up, and him gone to the hospital.”

The 32-year-old Britton was from Ambrook Lane, in St Andrew, and had fathered 10 children, including two step-children.

Tomlinson-Britton said they had been married for two years now, and was making plans to have another child together. She said he was a great father and a very reliable person.

Very supportive

“Besides being that tuff person that he was when he was at work, he’s a loving person, father, friend, very supportive of everybody. Him wi go the extra mile fi you, and figet bout himself,” she said.

She said he started off working as a conductor on the Dunhaney Park to Half Way Tree route, but has been working as a taxi man for more than 10 years.

The police yesterday said that the man who allegedly killed Britton is now in custody and the investigators are asking anyone with information that can assist them to contact the Hunts Bay Police. But as the police call for witnesses, the cabbie’s wife has lost an irreplaceable part of her.

“There is no amount of justice that can mek me feel better. Whether them kill him lock him up. It’s not going to bring back a man, a father,” she said.

Paul Campbell, Britton’s uncle, said he does not believe the reports that his nephew attacked the JUTC bus driver with a knife.

“Is a yute, him nuh use knife, if him a fight yuh, him a fight yuh fist-to-fist, is either him beat yuh up or you beat him up,” he said.