Manchester policemen freed of murder

Two policemen who were charged with the 2012 murder of George Green inside a store in Christiana, Manchester, have been acquitted.

Police Constable Eveneene Gallimore was found not guilty on Thursday by a seven-member jury following a trial which lasted close to three weeks in the Manchester Circuit Court.

District Constable Kemar Sewell was freed on Tuesday after the presiding judge upheld a no-case submission from his attorney-at-law Norman Godfrey.

Investigators from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) reported that the policemen responded to a call about a break-in at a supermarket on Main Street.

INDECOM investigators said footage from a closed-circuit television in the store showed Green being shot while hiding behind shelves.  

But on Thursday, the jury, after deliberating for 16 minutes, found Gallimore not guilty.

Attorney-at-law Patrick Peterkin, who represented Gallimore, argued during the trial that his client acted in self-defence.

Peterkin refuted the prosecution's evidence that the police had placed a machete on the scene.

He also pointed out that the footage showed his client firing, but did not show who he was firing at or what the person was doing.

- Tanesha Mundle

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