A Toronto woman jailed in Jamaica along with her husband four years ago after their dead toddler was found stuffed in a suitcase was stabbed to death New Year’s Eve — and her husband is the prime suspect.

The Jamaican Constabulary Force said Alphanso Warren, 39, is in custody following the fatal stabbing of his wife, Stephanie Warren, also 39, inside a Kingston apartment late Thursday night.

District Const. Janelle Radcliffe confirmed these are the same Warrens who were arrested in Jamaica after the decomposing body of their two-year-old son, Joshua, was found on Jan. 15, 2012, inside their Kingston home.

Neighbours who had set out searching for the missing boy found his remains zipped inside a suitcase.

Jamaican media report the couple was sentenced to 12 months in prison for concealing the boy’s death. The government reportedly determined he died of natural causes.

District Const. Craig Wilson of the Jamaican Constabulary Force says Stephanie was killed during a dispute. Police were called to the apartment around 11:20 p.m.

Wilson couldn’t say if any children were in the apartment at the time.

Toronto Police arrested the couple in January 2008 after their eight-month-old girl, Angelica, was found abandoned in the freezing stairwell of a building. They were convicted of child abandonment and lost custody of the little girl and three other children.

Sources with Toronto Police and child-welfare services also said in 2012 that Stephanie Warren had two other kids from a previous relationship taken away from her around this same time, as well.

The Warrens left Canada for Jamaica in late 2009.

Stephanie’s cousin, Margaret Lindo, said in 2012 that Alphanso was a domineering man and Stephanie’s family worried she’d fallen under his spell. “Stephanie was a good girl ... Nobody had a problem with her until she got married,” Lindo said from Jamaica, also claiming Stephanie’s family in Canada regularly sent money to help the destitute couple survive.

Patricia Smith-Bell, the Jamaican godmother of the boy found in the suitcase, said something similar.

“Stephanie is intelligent ... (but) anything Alphanso wanted to do, she would have to do,” Smith-Bell said.

There was no answer Saturday at the Scarborough home of Stephanie’s parents.

terry.davidson@sunmedia.ca