Is Sydney Bucknor Jr. Guilty of Killing his Uncle?

Sydney Bucknor Jr.

Also appearing in court today was twenty-six-year-old Sydney Bucknor Junior, who is charged with the murder of his uncle, sixty-one-year-old Michael Bucknor. Sydney gave the police a caution statement in which he confessed to the 2016 murder.  That statement was admitted into evidence after a voir dire, which is a trial within a trial, found that it was given voluntarily.  This morning, attorney Anthony Sylvestre, who had just recently taken over the case, urged the court to revisit the confession.  Sylvestre claimed that there is evidence to support the possibility that the confession was obtained by oppression.  Senior Crown Counsel Sheneiza Smith pointed out that Sydney, in his statement, had admitted to killing his uncle and that there was sufficient evidence as to the guilt or innocence of the accused.  In the end, Justice Williams saw no need to revisit the confession statement since the voir dire clearly proved that it was freely given. On the night of June twenty-sixth, 2016, Michael Bucknor was speaking with a woman near Tony’s Grocery on Faber’s Road, when a gunman rode up on a bicycle and shot him to the back of his head.  On February tenth, 2020, Justice Marilyn Williams is expected to hand down her decision.