–after prosecution fails to bring him in guilty

TWENTY-year-old Kevin Boston is today thanking his lucky stars after being freed on Thursday of all charges pertaining to an armed robbery he allegedly committed a little over a year ago at Crane, West Coast Demerara.

Boston was on trial before Magistrate Cristel Lambert at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court for the charge which alleged that on January 20, 2017 at Lot 40 Church Street, Crane, while being in the company of others and armed with guns, he robbed Dawn Martin of a quantity of cash and items valued $1.6M.

In setting him free, Magistrate Lambert concurred with the defence that Boston had been wrongfully identified, and that the police had not done a proper job during their investigations.

Defence attorney Dexter Todd, in his submission to the court, outlined several major factors and loopholes in the prosecution’s case, one of which was that during Boston’s first court appearance, he denied the allegation and maintained his innocence throughout the trial.

The attorney also noted that the victim, during her testimony in court, explained that on the day in question she heard an explosion and then saw her son coming with his hands in the air and saying, “Come, ah gon give you everything; alright brudda.”

The attorney further pointed out in his submission that the victim had told the court that she saw a fair-skinned man pointing a gun at her son as he lay on the ground.
She’d also told the court, Todd said, that while there were three men standing behind the fair-skinned man, she did not see if they had firearms in their possession.

Todd noted that the woman recalled that the incident lasted about five minutes, and that she’d recognised one of the men to be a man who was wearing a flop hat. That man’s name, she’d said, was ‘Boney’, the defendant, and that he’d gone to school with her daughter.

But when arrested, as well as throughout his trial, counsel argued, Boston had always maintained that he was at the ‘Ten to Midnight Beer Garden’ at the material time of the robbery, as was attested by no less than five witnesses.

Todd further contended that his client was still charged, even though the police had checked out his alibi and found that he’d been telling the truth, and that he’d been mistakenly identified.

The magistrate, after listening to the attorney’s submission, ruled that the prosecution failed to prove their case due to a lack of evidence, and dismissed the robbery charge against Boston.