The police in St Thomas are now probing reports that a man whose head was severed and later found at least five miles away from the rest of his body was murdered due to allegations that he was an informer.

The severed head of Franklyn McCalla of the Stanton Housing Scheme, near Morant Bay, was found in the Red Hills area in the parish yesterday.

The cops subsequently launched a search and the remainder of McCalla's body was found in the trunk of a car on a farm, about five miles from where the head was found.

A source from the division told THE STAR that the police are probing rumours that the man's death is linked to the demise of Rupert Wallace, otherwise called 'Killer Miller', who was fatally shot last Friday during an alleged shoot-out with members of the Joint Task Force, in the Stanton Housing Scheme.

The source, an inspector from the Area 5 police, said they heard that a group of men accused McCalla of leaking information about Wallace to the cops and labelled him as an informer.

"We all know how the informer thing go and this is what we are hearing so far. He was murdered by men who accused him of informing on 'Killer Miller'. We don't have enough evidence to support it yet, but we are investigating," the inspector told THE STAR.

Meanwhile, the second head of a human being was also found in the parish yesterday.

That discovery was made early yesterday morning in the Retreat area. The police say investigations led them to a shallow grave where it is believed that the body is buried.