An armed gang burst into the reception claiming the groom owned them $10,000 Jamaican dollars - just £60
A new bride was forced to watch her new husband being shot dead by masked gunmen at their Jamaican wedding reception.
Jacqueline Cousins, 49, married Dameion Cousins, 31, in an idyllic ceremony in the Caribbean.
But hours later an armed gang burst into the reception claiming the groom owned them $10,000 Jamaican dollars - just £60.
They held the bride at gunpoint while Mr Cousins was shot in the head outside in the driveway.
Mrs Cousins, a family support worker, from Hornsey, North London, said she has no idea why the gang targeted her husband.
She said: 'I started screaming and screaming and I could not believe what I was seeing.
'I lay down next to him and I put my head on his chest. I realised he was dead.
'We were just two people who really
loved each other and had taken that move to be together and just a few
hours later this is what I was dealing with.'
The
mother-of-seven first met Mr Cousins - a songwriter and performer -
when she visited her parent's home in Jamaica 11 years ago.
The couple did not begin dating until seven years later when her previous marriage fell apart.
Recalling the attack, she said: 'I was so frightened I could barely lift my head to look at them
.'I told them that he was not there, that they could take what they wanted, but it all happened to quickly.'
Police
arrested two men following the brutal attack, but released them without
charge and no one has ever been caught or prosecuted.
The newlyweds planned to return to London so Mrs Cousins could continue work and her new husband could get a job.
Mrs Cousins, who returned to London in August, said: 'I just want answers.
'The two men who killed my husband are still out there.
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