Jamaica: A 31-year-old man, Henry, was discovered not responsible within the St Catherine Circuit Courtroom on Monday, 22 January, from a dispute within the 10-year-old case of killing a 27-year-old man, Callahan, by stabbing in Outdated Harbour, a city within the Southern a part of Jamaica, on 6 June 2013.
The person is recognized with the identify of Damon Henry, who lives in Outdated Harbour city, whereas the deceased victim of 2013 stabbing, recognized with the identify of Travis Callahan, who was a labourer additionally lived in Outdated Harbour.
As per the experiences, the decision of the court docket got here in favour of Damon Henry after the cross-examination of the witness who misplaced his credibility whereas recording a press release on the 2013 Outdated Harbour stabbing. Henry was charged within the homicide case in 2013 on the age of approx twenty-one.
It’s talked about that the claimed witness of the incident, who’s a girl, gave statements to the police wherein she beforehand claimed that she had seen the incident herself.
In her latest assertion, she twisted it after cross-examination and admitted that she by no means noticed the incident herself however heard from others about what occurred that day.
Based mostly on the unstable statements, Henry Dr Kes Miller’s and Dianna Mitchell’s attorneys raised the purpose in court docket. They mentioned the claimed witness had no credibility and couldn’t be trusted as strong proof towards Henry.
In response, Justice Yvonne Brown agreed with the attorneys and mentioned, ”No proof was offered by the principle witness to make a nexus between the offence, and due to this fact, the components of the offence weren’t confirmed.”
Justice Brown talked about, “The witness is manifestly unreliable. Subsequently, I can not put the case to the jury for deliberation.”
Straight after, the jury was instructed to mark the decision as not responsible on the idea of no credible proof towards Damon Henry within the 2013 Outdated Harbour stabbing case.
Folks across the nation and within the communities of Outdated Harbour, after studying in regards to the case of not responsible Henry, charged with stabbing in 2013, are sharing their opinions.
Persons are saying, “Why our justice system is so poor. The person suffered for the final ten years. That’s merciless. He lived the lifetime of a legal with out committing any crime. And we see actual criminals revolving in open, threatening lives of individuals, and nothing occurs to them.”
Folks additionally mentioned, “what about that witness? She is actual legal who wasted the lifetime of harmless with none cause. She have to be punished and never left in open. That would be the actual justice.”
Henry made a number of appearances in court docket within the case of the 2013 Outdated Harbour stabbing. For the final ten years, he at all times maintained his innocence.
