British personal trainer shot 12 times in alleged contract killing in Jamaica

A vacationing personal trainer from the UK has been found in a ‘pool of blood’ at a Jamaica villa after suffering 12 fatal injuries in what police say was custom-made.

Londoner Sean Patterson, 33, attacked Sean Patterson, 33, while he was sitting with a friend by the pool at the One Love Guest House in Montego Bay, according to the Times of London.

“We suspect this is a contract killing coming from the UK,” Deputy Police Commissioner Fitz Bailey said, adding that the victim had an “extensive criminal record” in the UK for violent crimes, including firearms and drugs.

Authorities do not believe that Patterson, who arrived in Jamaica on December 29, was associated with any criminal activity. Bailey said the hitman was apparently hired to kill him in the resort town.

“It appears to be part of what I consider to be a transnational organized crime group,” Bailey said.

According to local media, a 34-year-old man was detained.

Patterson traveled to Jamaica with his friend Shane Cameron, 30, a London builder, with whom he booked a five-night hotel stay.

On the same day, the friends reportedly went to a concert where they met 34-year-old Ochan Richards, who was deported from the UK to Jamaica in 2013 on drug charges.

It was not immediately clear whether Richards was the suspected shooter.

The day after the concert, Patterson and Richard were sitting by the pool at a resort in Bog Hill, St. James, when a gunman opened fire, wounding Patterson in the head and chest. He was rushed to Cornwall Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Times of London.

“I lost a child. No mother should bury her child,” his mother, Leslie Wright, 63, told the Daily Mail, adding that her son traveled to Jamaica for the first time to meet his father’s family.

“He was having a great time. He sent me a photo of him basking in the sun and a video of him jumping off a cliff into the sea,” Wright said.

“Sean has a family in Jamaica thanks to his father. They are very well off there, and he hoped to meet them. He never had a chance,” she added.

Patterson’s father, Alan Patterson, told ITV News London that he was still trying to “process” the news of the murder.

“We need justice, we want justice, he deserves justice because he was someone,” the grieving father said.

“His name was Sean Alan Patterson, the favorite of all West Londoners. Wherever he went, he was loved,” he said. “He had such mannerisms that simply captivated people, and they deprived us of this light.

“Sean, rest in peace, please, son, and let those responsible for this pay, because we all mourn – his three brothers, four sisters, his mother, his grandfather,” Alan added.

Patterson left a fiancee with whom he was together for 13 years, British LBC reports. The couple planned to start a family together.