by YVETTE BEST "I LEAVE the laws of Maat to deal with those who took my son." The words of a grieving Rastafari mother Margaret Maloney, who refuses to believe that her first-born I'Akobi Tacuma Maloney jumped to his death at Landlocks near Cove Bay, St Lucy, on Tuesday evening as stated by police. Maloney told the DAILY NATION she was disturbed by the inconsistencies in the information she had received from police thus far. Police and coast guard officials pulled Tacuma's body from the water around 1:30 a.m. yesterday. Officers on the scene Tuesday night said they responded to call of a drug landing around 5:30 p.m., where they observed and interviewed Tacuma. "Initial investigations reveal that Maloney suddenly ran and jumped off a cliff, landing on a ledge below. Shortly after this he was washed off this ledge by the pounding waves, which took him out into the sea," public relations officer inspector Barry Hunte said in a Press release. That story is not washing with the Maloney family and the Rastafari community. Maloney remains convinced her son was pushed to his death. She said her 23-year-old son, who recently graduated from the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies, was afraid of heights and feared death by drowning. "The real sad thing was that they tried to say he jumped," Maloney said. She last spoke with him on Tuesday morning after he handed in his resignation at the Arawak Cement Plant. He said then that he felt like taking a bus trip to the Cove. She said police visited the house around 9 p.m. on Tuesday and told her that Tacuma was involved in a fatal accident. According to her, the report from the Crab Hill station was of a drug landing, and Tacuma jumped when the police arrived. She said they claimed he landed face down. At the Holetown station they said he engaged them in a "lengthy conversation", then broke away and jumped. She said she was permitted to see her son's body after she made a scene at the forensic office on Culloden Road, St Michael. She said except for a few scratches her son's face was intact, but his lifeblood flowed from a wound at the back of his head. A post mortem is to be conducted to determine the cause of death. No drugs were seized or arrests made.
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