Trevor Berbick’s Nephew Charged With His Murder
Posted November 3, 2006 12:00 pm.
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A nephew of slain boxer Trevor Berbick has been charged with the former Canadian heavyweight champ’s brutal murder late last month in Jamaica.
Berbick’s body was found Oct. 28 in a church courtyard near his home about 130 kilometres east of Kingston. Authorities found a metal pipe at the scene of the crime and believe it was used to bludgeon the boxer to death.
Berbick had suffered blows to the back of the head.
On Friday Jamaican police said they’d arrested Berbick’s 20-year-old nephew Harold Berbick and another 18-year-old man, Kenton Gordon, from the same area.
Berbick was the last man to fight Muhammad Ali and briefly held the WBC heavyweight title before losing it to a 20-year-old Mike Tyson in 1986.
Berbick’s career spanned nearly a quarter of a century, from 1976 to 2000. He moved to the United States in the 1980s and following his retirement he was convicted of sexual assault, burglary and grand theft.
He moved back to Montreal in 1999, but when Canadian officials learned of his convictions south of the border they ordered him deported to Jamaica. The boxer appealed the decision and was granted a five-year stay, which was later revoked.
Berbick began his boxing career in Halifax and became a landed Canadian immigrant in 1979.
