Trio accused of murdering Devern Stanley aka ‘Snoopy’ set free
Moments ago, November 15, 2022, Justice Thomas Astaphan KC instructed the pool of jurors in the High Court to enter a not guilty verdict for all three accused as he had established that the prosecution provided no evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, that the three men together or individually murdered Stanley.
The accused were Dakheme Cheltenham aka ‘Kemo’, Vicardo Farrell aka ‘Scar’ and Kareem Durrant aka ‘Blacker’.
Durrant; however, remains imprisoned on another matter.
Lack of evidence
The men’s lawyers on November 14, 2022, submitted that the Crown had failed to present sufficient evidence against their clients that can determine guilty as accused.
All three attorneys pointed out a number of areas where the prosecution fell short of sufficient evidence, among which were the absence of forensic evidence, poor CCTV video, the fact that pathologist evidence stated that the injuries that resulted in the death of Stanley (blunt trauma) could have been sustained from the rock where the skeletal remains were found at Rogues Bay.
The decomposed body of Stanley was found on July 28, 2016, two months after he went missing.
Prosecuting the case were Principal Crown Counsel Kellee-Gai Smith and Crown Counsel Kristian Johnson.
More details to follow.
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57 Responses to “Trio accused of murdering Devern Stanley aka ‘Snoopy’ set free”
Sorry to say, this is what happens when you put someone in a position because of where they are from.
All this DPP wants to do is tit for tat. I do not feel safe in this country because the prosecution is WEAK in these cases. Murderers. And much more are on the road free all because this DPP is WEAK! Go write another article or to appeal this one because that’s all you try to do to save face. Since you have taken office it has been Straight Ls we are in trouble u less the government gets rid of this DPP and fast!
the police quick to lock up and then while in jail forget the one thing you need EDVINANCE TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIM.
but here the police and DPP get to comfortable and that how their losing.
1. Snoopy murder
2. The Purcell Estate murder
3. The Brandywine Bay murder
4. The Police drug case
All these cases were lost at the NO CASE SUBMISSION stage. There are more that I can't even remember. Time for a great reset. That entire office needs to go.
I’ll tell you who is next- the white man undef arrest fir Frankie’s Martin death. No evidence against him.
why can't there be a commission of inquiry about the social standards because that system needs to be improved
we had a commission of inquiry associated with our political standards
the judicial system weak arresting people and can not get a conviction( and we speaking about very serious crimes and criminal activity
Stop rushing to arrest people because of public pressure especially when your case is circumstantial or on the face of it weak.
There is no deterrence for committing crimes now!! Our cases are won in the blogs and lost at court
DPP’s office role is to prosecute a game presented by the police. The DPP themselves does not investigate so they can’t be faulted however; in putting their case together they should have known whether they have a case or not based off the investigative file notes.
So this tells me people are being charged wrongfully and the courts time is being wasted.
because the Ddp are like many others say are a waste of time.
in fact not only them the police as well. Because the i am sure the Ddp is acting off the police advice. when they say let's charge this person here's the evidence.
so for those who quick to throw full blame on the Ddp the police department is to be blame equally as well if not the most.
or this judge got to go. i don't know. all I know something isn't right here.
cause note the judge said no evidence at all. the Ddp don't provide evidence they only present such to the court.
it's the police job to obtain proper evidence to submit to the ddp and then the ddp goes to court and present the evidence on behalf the people.
so truly in the end police investigation department gots to go they suck at collecting evidence clearly.
with all the so-called experts within the police department these days yet the judicial system can't win a case due to poor evidence
I think the setback in the court system most of the accused now have legal representation who vigorously question the evidence which is submitted during the hearings by the department of public prosecution
Mr Police Officer stop sitting back depending on informers and move about our villages and keep it real: our place now have far more police a wide variety of squads yet there is a serious rise in criminal activity in a once tranquil place
run blog that
The DPP may not be the best, but this one isn’t their fault, they can only work with what their given to work with.
DPP I don't think you should in office, you haven't tried NO high profile case as an DPP. All you do is complain about the judges when the judge is there to see that a fair trail is given to the accused. Yes the police dropped the ball in the investigation but it's you quit the game you could have should have seen there was not enough evidence to arrest these guy or take this to trail. I guess you was hoping that you polluted the jury pool by putting out enough propaganda on and in the media to get a conviction.