Man charged for ex-girlfriend's death in Flat Bridge crash freed
Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 2:19 PM
Thirty-nine-year-old Vincent Dunn, who was charged for the death of his ex-girlfriend in a vehicular crash in the Bog Walk Gorge, was freed in the St Catherine Circuit Court, after the Crown conceded it could not mount a successful prosecution.
When the matter came up on Wednesday, attorney Richard Lynch told the court that the allegations against his client were tenuous at best.
"The defence agreed from the onset that the Crown did not have a prima facie case," Lynch said.
Dunn was charged in relation to the death of 27-year-old McKedia Hudson of Magil Palm, St Catherine.
It was reported that during a covid-19 curfew on September 26, 2021, Dunn and Hudson were travelling in a motor car along the roadway and, upon reaching Flat Bridge, the vehicle plunged into the Rio Cobre.
Hudson drowned. Dunn was not physically harmed in the incident.
An investigation was launched and Dunn was charged with breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act, perverting the course of justice and causing death by dangerous driving.
He made numerous court appearances.
- Rasbert Turner
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