Mark Waight Awaits His Fate for an Attempted Murder Charge

Mark Waight

Justice Colin Williams is expected to hand down a decision on December eighteenth 2019 in the case of twenty-one-year-old Mark Waight, who was charged with the attempted murder of Jamelia Neal.  In trial today, Waight called two witnesses, including his sister, Desiree Waight, who told the court that she was with him at the time of the incident.  Last month, the court heard from Neal, who testified that on the night of June twenty-third 2015, she was at a shop on Caesar Ridge Road in Belize City when Waight pointed a gun in her face. Waight pulled the trigger, but the gun snapped. Neal then tried to escape, but Waight managed to fire several shots hitting her on the shoulder, elbow and hip. Waight was unrepresented while Senior Crown Counsel Shanice Williams prosecuted the case. Months ago in June, Waight was acquitted of journalist Kareem Clarke’s murder.