The Major Investigations Division and the Criminal Investigations Branch are probing the death of Judge Ruth Lawrence after a post-mortem performed on her body revealed that she died from poisoning.
Lawrence was a judge in the northern parish of Trelawny.
According the police, on October 2, during the post mortem. The pathologist found that Lawrence died from the consumption of a toxic chemical.
There were also no marks of violence on the body.
The 59-year-old jurist was reportedly found in distress in the bathroom by her husband, who later transported her to the hospital in the parish capital of Falmouth, where she was pronounced dead.