Crown ends case in cop's murder trial
Published:Thursday | July 7, 2011 | 12:00 AM
THE CROWN yesterday closed its arguments in the murder trial of police Sergeant Lance Webley, who has been off the job for the last 10 years awaiting the outcome of the case.
Webley, who is being represented by attorneys-at-law George Soutar and Linda Wright, was first charged with the murder of John Spencer, who was shot in St Catherine on November 16, 2001.
Last year, the indictment was changed to murder of a person unknown.
It is alleged that the members of the security forces were summoned to Webley's home where someone had reportedly attempted to break into his house.
Shot in cold blood
Prosecutors Joan Barnett and Paula Archer-Hall led evidence that the unknown man was shot in cold blood.
A soldier testified at the trial that he received a radio transmission and went to Webley's house, and a search was made, but no one was found. He said there was a second radio transmission and he and another soldier went back to the area. The soldier said he heard a voice and saw a man come out with his hands in the air. He said he saw Webley fire shots in the man's direction and the man was hit in the abdomen.
Weblely's lawyers made submissions yesterday in the absence of the jury.
Supreme Court judge Bertram Morrison told the 12-member jury to return to the Home Circuit Court today.