Ex-soldier freed of gun, assault charges
Published:Friday | July 17, 2020 | 1:47 PM
Sixty-two-year-old former member of the Jamaica Defence Force Nerille Harrison was freed yesterday in the Gun Court of illegal possession of firearm and assault charges.
He was accused of using a firearm to beat a farmer in the Byndloss community in St Catherine in October 2018.
During cross-examination, attorney Peter Champagnie suggested to the complainant that the accused hit him with a cellphone when he advanced towards him with a machete.
The complainant admitted that he had a machete when the accused hit him.
The judge, in finding Harrison not guilty, commented that the complainant’s evidence lacked credibility and doubts as to whether a gun was used.
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