Donna-Lee Donaldson was last seen alive on July 12, 2022 at the Chelsea Manor Apartment complex in St Andrew, where Maitland lived.
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Sophia Lugg, the mother of social media influencer and entrepreneur Donna-Lee Donaldson, said on Thursday morning that her daughter had left their St Andrew home on July 11, 2022, with her passport.
Donaldson, who is believed to have been killed and her body disposed of between July 12 and 13, 2022, was last seen alive at the apartment complex where her police boyfriend, Constable Noel Maitland, lived.
Maitland is currently on trial in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston for murder and the unlawful burial of Donaldson.
Under cross-examination from Christopher Townsend, who is one of Maitland’s attorneys, Lugg said her daughter had her reasons for leaving home with the passport. The attorney asked Lugg if her daughter had a passport, and she responded, saying, “Yes, sir.” She said that after her daughter’s disappearance on July 12, 2022, and during an interview with investigators from the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom), she was asked about the passport but was not able to produce it.
“She had left with it for reasons, sir,” Lugg said in court, clarifying that she told Indecom that Donaldson left home with the travel document.
She told the court that the last time she spoke to her daughter was on the morning of July 12, 2022, around 8:00 am, when Donaldson asked her to feed her dog named “China”. She told the court that, subsequent to that, she tried calling Donaldson several times but with no luck, as she never answered the phone again.
The apparently distraught mother told the court that even to this day, she calls the number.