BUSINESSMAN Kevin Jordon went on trial on a two-count indictment for committing unnatural sex acts on a schoolboy on November 2 and November 7, 2007.But last night, a Demerara Criminal Assizes jury found the 56-year-old Broad Street businessman not guilty of the first count on a 10 to 2 majority verdict, but guilty on the second count by a majority 11 to one verdict.
Defence counsel Mr. Neil Boston referred to the guilty verdict in the second count as ridiculous, on the grounds that the jury had disbelieved the boy’s story on the first count. Boston however supported the call for a probation report to be delivered on October 30 when sentence will be passed.
Jordon, called ‘Caie’, had pleaded not guilty resulting in a 12-member jury being empanelled to try his case.
State counsel Ms Orienthia Schmidt and Ms Stacy Goodings conducted the case for the prosecution.
They urged the jury to find that the accused had offered the boy edibles as a means of committing the offence.