The Supreme Court has ruled that the Government must pay $2 million with interest to St Andrew resident Junior Minott, who was shot by the police when they opened fire while chasing an unarmed man on December 6, 2005. Minott was shot in the hand.
A jury after deliberating for two hours last week following a three-week trial in the St Thomas Circuit Court freed 37-year-old mechanic Desmond Williams of the murder of his stepbrother. The Crown led evidence at the trial that on April 6, 2019,.
Police Inspector Delroy Ferron was today freed in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court of a charge of indecent assault against a policewoman. He was arrested and charged in October 2020 following a ruling by the Director of Public.
The Supreme Court is to assess damages in the lawsuit brought by two men who were arrested in 2005 for the murder of 52-year-old Westmoreland hotelier Sandra McLeod but were freed in May 2012 when the Crown offered no evidence against.
Former district Constable and garage operator, 71-year-old Linton Berry, who was released on June 16 after serving 31 years in prison for murder, has died. Relatives said Berry, who had been ailing from he was in prison, died this morning..