Will alleged killers of Brannon brothers be rearrested?

At yesterday’s opening of the Supreme Court the C.J. spoke of the staggering number of cases—a total of eighty-three—in which the D.P.P.’s office entered a nolle prosequi and the cases were struck out. The C.J. counseled the D.P.P. not to press on with an indictment when there was not enough material. But there are two high profile cases that caught the attention of the media and are still pending.

When the murder trial of Taedron Bennett and Joseph Kee fell apart on December fifteenth after a police officer Fitzroy Yearwood was willing to testify but could not due to illness, Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, said she intended to call back the case as soon as Yearwood is in good condition.

It would be interesting to see how that wish plays out since the two men, accused of the shooting murders of brothers, Phillip and Kevin Brannon early on May fourteenth, 2006 on Albert Street, were free to travel when the case collapsed. Whether or not they are still in Belize is another question.

Also interesting case, more recently, is against the six charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery upon businessman, Jose Shoman and his family in December as well. News Five was informed that Conspiracy to Commit Murder charges were to be filed against three of six people accused but so far we have not been able to ascertain whether those charges were ever filed.

Thirty-three year old Aldo Miguel Urbina of Orange Walk Town and twenty-two year old Cesar Aldana were two of the three identified as the ones who helped to plot the incident in the wee hours of December thirteenth, 2008. The three others are Guatemalan minors of seventeen years of age. On December sixteenth, six persons, including forty-seven year old Honduran national Miguel Mayorga, along with Urbina and Aldana and the three seventeen year old Guatemalans were slapped with charges of Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and firearm and ammunition offenses.

Cops foiled the plot at the Shoman home on the Northern Highway and investigations led them to a house in the Saint Martin de Porres area where they found the group with weapons that were allegedly to be used in the crime.