A grave injustice !
That’s how the mother of one of the two men who disappeared from the Washington Boulevard Plaza ten years ago, is describing the decision by Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewelyn, to drop the murder charge against the two accused policemen.
The DPP yesterday discontinued the case against Corporal Louis Lynch and Constable Paul Edwards, on the basis that the matter is too expensive to pursue at this time.
The DPP said it had been very expensive for the State to undertake a retrial of the policemen because the Government had to pay millions of dollars to bring five overseas witnesses to the first trial.
But the DPP says that determination will not be made until after the passage of a new law that allows persons outside of Jamaica to give evidence via simulcast.
For the moment the country’s chief prosecutor says its too expensive to proceed.
Kemar Walter’s mother, Claudette Angus, is angry.
During the first trial, for Constable Edwards, the Jury returned a majority guilty verdict, which under the law could have been accepted.
But Justice Horace Marsh told the Policeman he’s free to go.
Miss Angus says DPP Llewelyn and her prosecutors failed in their duty to show Justice Marsh the error of his ways.
Miss Angus says she misses her son.
She says she has something directly to say to Paula Llewelyn … but not today.
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