By BARBARA GAYLE, Staff ReporterA MAN WHO was accused of staging a daring daylight shooting spree at the Kingston Public Hospital in January 2001, killing a patient and the policemen guarding the patient was yesterday freed of the double murder.
Freed was 27-year-old Christopher Miller popularly known as 'Nunu Puss', 27, of Tivoli Gardens, Kingston. A few years ago 'Nunu Puss' was on the police Most Wanted List.
"Nunu Puss" went on trial in the Home Circuit Court on Monday for the murder of Nakia Broderick also called Bunny Lee and 62-year-old District Constable Osbert Thompson. Broderick was a wanted man who was shot by the police and he was being guarded at the hospital. The allegations were that about 2.30 p.m. on January 3, 2001 two men dressed in porter uniforms entered the hospital and shot them dead.
Broderick was shot 12 times in the chest while Thompson was shot twice in the head and his firearm stolen. Another District Constable who was on guard at the time hid under a bed. While leaving the hospital the men allegedly engaged the police who were downstairs in a shootout.
After Broderick's sister heard that he was killed, she went over to the Madden's Funeral Parlour to look at the body and she was shot and killed.
Following investigations by the police, warrants were obtained for Miller's arrest. He was held on January 7, 2002 and charged with double murder.
The trial began on Monday before a jury and Mrs. Justice Marjorie Cole-Smith. 'Nunu Puss' was freed yesterday after the judge upheld a no case submission made by attorney-at-law Ravil Golding that there were too many discrepancies in the evidence given by main witnesses for the Crown. The witness admitted in court that the shooting incident in the hospital lasted for a minute and for more than a half of that time she was hiding under a bed.
The witness said she knew Miller as "Nunu Puss" for several years but when she gave the statement to the police she did not remember the alias name. Mr. Golding pointed out that the witness had said at the preliminary inquiry that 'Nunu Puss' was dressed in plain clothes on the day of the murder and did not shoot the District Constable but at the trial she said Nunu Puss shot the District Constable in th head. Mr. Golding said the witness had given conflicting statements because at the trial she said "Nunu Puss" was dressed in porter's uniform.
He also said that the witness admitted that it was some days after she gave her statement to the police that someone showed her a photograph with "Nunu Puss" and she remembered the name.
The judge agreed with Mr. Golding's submissions and directed the jury to return a formal verdict of not guilty, freeing "Nunu Puss" of the charges.
