Any other team and he would support England, a bit like having a mother and a stepmother He was very loyal to Britain. Danny used to say, 'People criticise this country but they want something for nothing. Be happy with what you have.'"He was a good man, a hard worker You could trust him with your life. He had always said, 'When I finish I am going to go to Jamaica and put my feet up'."The couple had invested their savings in a spacious three-bedroom bungalow in Portland, an area on the north- east coast of the Caribbean island, known for its lush vegetation, waterfalls and misty blue mountains On 26 April Mr Gayle retired Mr Negi said: "He looked ten years younger He wasn't worried about crime. He was just happy.''Yet now his name joins a growing list of returnees who have fallen victim to robbers in search of easy prey. Vidal Nelson, 66, killed last August 10 hours after arriving; Alfred Morris, 70, Vincent Palmer, 68, Nigel Johnson, 36, are just some of those killed in the past few years.The Jamaica Observer wrote last week: "There have been a number of cases in recent months of people, especially those coming from England, being trailed and held up.

The stretch between the airport and downtown Kingston and St Andrews has become a dangerous corridor."Clearly, police patrols cannot totally eliminate such hold- ups, but they help and should be maintained. It is bad enough that Jamaicans who have returned home believe that they are targets in their communities. It is worse that they believe that they are not even allowed to reach their homes from the airport."The Human Rights Commission of the ruling People's National Party (PNP) has condemned the "cold blooded murder'' of Mr Gayle. The commission's chairman, Deacon Ronnie Thwaites, said: "Our people both living here and returning from abroad have a right to be in our country without the threat or the reality of losing their lives to criminal violence."There is and can be no excuse, no explanation of depravation of need, for this deliberate, unprovoked destruction of life and the reputation of our country.''Though thousands of citizens from Britain and America return to Jamaica each year to a life of peace and relative wealth, too many are falling victim to the gangs.

The Association for the Resettlement of Returning Residents (ARRR) believes as many as 50 have been attacked in the past five years. The official figure is in the 30s.Percy LaTouche, president of the ARRR, said recently: "Whatever figure you take, it is staggering. Imagine the outcry there would be if that many Irishmen had gone home and were murdered, or Australians, Nigerians, or any of the other immigrant groups who spent their life working in hospitals and factories and driving buses in Britain, dreaming of the day they could go home. They harbour a romantic image of home, of the days when no one locks their doors, and find themselves coming back to a very different society.''. Israel's attempts to convince the world that it has embraced the Mitchell Commission's blueprint for peace were severely undermined yesterday when a senior cabinet minister confirmed that he had approved plans for hundreds of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Israel's attempts to convince the world that it has embraced the Mitchell Commission's blueprint for peace were severely undermined yesterday when a senior cabinet minister confirmed that he had approved plans for hundreds of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. The announcement, by Natan Sharansky, the Housing minister, came during a violent day in which two Jewish settlers were killed by Palestinian guerrillas on the West Bank, two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops, and a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at an Israeli checkpoint in southern Gaza, injuring two Israeli soldiers.In an ominous parallel development, two Newsweek journalists ­ Gary Knight, a British photographer, and Joshua Hammer, the magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief ­ were held for four hours by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza, who allegedly issued a statement warning the United States and Britain that a group called Fatah Hawks would kidnap and kill their citizens in the region, if the two countries continued their support of Israel.As both sides jockey frantically for publicity advantage, Israel insists that it has accepted the Mitchell findings, containing a plan for restoring calm, starting with an unconditional ceasefire. This is despite the fact that Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, rejects a key Mitchell recommendation considered critical by the report's authors and unnegotiable by the Palestinian leadership: a complete freeze on all settlement construction in the occupied territories.This position was confirmed yesterday when Mr Sharansky told an Israeli radio station that he had approved construction bids for 496 hew homes within Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, the largest illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, where home sales have plummeted since the start of the intifada.