Vigilante justice was handed down in Salt Spring, St James, late Saturday night, when a man was beheaded after being accused of murdering a woman and her daughter hours earlier.

Albert 'Riot' Clarke, 44, ex-convict of Buck-Toe Lane in Salt Spring, was being sought by residents since 6 a.m. Saturday, after the bodies of Sasha Rose-Ann Houston, 28, and her eight-year-old daughter Whitney Rose-Ann Nelson were found that morning.

"About 11:45 Saturday night mi hear two shots fire and cars driving fast up and down the road. Mi hear when one driver stop and say but mi #$$@# see dem cut off 'Riot' head and put it a di crossroad," one resident related.

Clarke was spotted in neighbouring 'Go Peas Lane' where he was set upon and chopped. His head was severed and brought to the entrance of his community where it was left in the middle of the road.

Residents had been strongly speculating that he was responsible for the bizarre murders of Miss Houston and her daughter. The child's father resides in the U.S. She was his only child.

A passer-by was walking along a dirt track in Buck-Toe-Lane Saturday when he spotted Miss Houston lying face down. He raised an alarm and scores of neighbours who converged at the scene shortly after, discovered that the woman's torso had several chop wounds.

The residents became curious as to the whereabouts of her child. They went in search of her at the house where she was found with her throat slashed. Miss Houston was said to be a close friend of Clarke's family.