THREE OF THE six policemen charged with the murder of four civilians at Kraal, Clarendon, on May 7, 2003, walked out of the Home Circuit Court yesterday as free men.
Freed were Constables Devon Bernard, Leford Gordon and Roderick Collier.
They were freed after Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe upheld submissions in law made by their lawyers. The Chief Justice directed the jury to free them because he said the Crown did not satisfy him in law that there was a case to be left for the jury's consideration.
They were charged jointly with Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams, former head of the disbanded Crime Management Unit and Corporals Patrick Coke and Shane Lyons.
Yesterday Adams and Coke in unsworn statements from the dock told the jury that gunmen fired at the police party when they went to Kraal, Clarendon and the police returned the fire. He said they had gone to Kraal for Bashington Douglas otherwise called 'Chen Chen' for whom there were warrants for his arrest for murder, shooting with intent and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition. They also called character witnesses.
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