Witness in murder trial develops amnesia; 3 freed

And in the Supreme Court, the key witness in a murder trial today developed a case of amnesia and suddenly forgot details in the stabbing death of twenty-five year old Mark Flowers that occurred on August twenty-fourth, 2007. When Errol Gentle took the witness stand in the Court of Justice Adolph Lucas, he could not remember what happened on the night of the incident. The prosecution, led by new Crown Counsel Canadian Grant Schoen appearing in his first case in Belize, submitted that the prosecution had no more evidence to offer. Attorney Hubert Elrington, who represented two of the three accused men, twenty-three year old Jaime Villanueva Junior and twenty-one year old Jermaine Villanueva, submitted that there was no case to answer. The other accused, twenty-one year old Tyrone Tillett, was represented by attorney Linsbert Willis. Justice Lucas upheld the submission and directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. Mark Flowers, a resident of Periwinkle Street was stabbed in the right side of his abdomen around two a.m. on August twenty-fourth, 2007 as he stood in front of Cesar’s Palace on Newtown Barracks. He was attacked by three men, two armed with knives. Errol Gentle, a taxi driver, was with Flowers at the time.