The death of an accused in a robbery case resulted in the matter being dismissed for want of prosecution in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

The investigator presented the burial order and death certificate of Keston Blake to the court which resulted in the ruling.

It was revealed that Blake was shot and killed in Pointhill district, St Catherine, on November 24, last year. He was charged with the April 2, 2010 robbery of a motor car from a farmer in Kitson Town, St Catherine.

The allegation were that on the day in question, Blake, along with two other men, held up the complainant on his farm, tied him up and robbed him of his Toyota Corolla motor car. The complainant managed to free himself and made an alarm and the police was alerted.

A search was launched and the car intercepted at the intersection of Feather Bed Lane and St John Road in Spanish Town, with Blake driving it.

He was subsequently charged with robbery with aggravation by Detective Constable Phillip Mullings of the Spanish Town Police Station.

- R.T.