Buxton murder accused freed o no-case submissions
IMPROPER  identification and insufficiency of evidence, in the Buxton murder case at the Demerara Assizesl, led to Squince Mc Lennon alias ‘Killer’ and Trian Sumner nicknamed ‘Tatie’ being freed on no-case submissions yesterday.
Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire  ruled in favour of Defence Counsel Basil Williams and directed the mixed jury to formally return a not guilty verdict.
But Mc Lennon left the dock in handcuffs as he is to face another charge while his former co-accused went into a motor car, outside the Court building, to join his mother.
The case for the Prosecution, presented by State Counsel Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, was that a witness,  Errol Adams called ‘Dynamite’, accompanied by his friend, Odingo Bryan, had gone to Buxton Line Top, East Coast Demerara, on January 9, 2004 and they were attacked by a gang of armed men including the two who had been on trial.
Adams said he suffered blows that left him with a bad memory and, as such, he could not vouch for what had happened.  He said, at one stage, he was running away when he heard an explosion and believed Bryan was shot but could not tell who did the shooting.
At the close of the Prosecution, Williams urged the judge to find that the State had failed to make out a case for the accused to answer, as it relates to identification, too.
Agreeing with Williams, Justice George-Wiltshire commended  Gildharie-Mursalin for a job well done with the tools she had been given.
The judge also extended commendation to the jurors for the particular attention they had paid and noted their searching questions from time to time.
Justice George-Wiltshire declared that what had happened was not only an injustice to the accused and  families but the deceased and his family, as well.
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Freed Squince McLennon being taken away in handcuffs.