Dwain Davis’ attorney says case against mayor may fail

But now that Davis has passed away, what does this mean for the prosecution’s case against Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, Kiran Bhudrani and Kiran Vanjani who were also criminally charged? According to Davis’ former attorney, Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, the case will probably fall apart.

Richard Dickie Bradley, Former Attorney for Dwain Davis
“In terms of the prosecution having charged all of them—in fact the top brass of Belize City Council—Dwain being the key financial man, the mayor being the elected official who is answerable in terms of the buck stops at her desk. But from a prosecution perspective, the prosecution is going to have a huge uphill battle to prove anything against the other parties in the light of the fact that the financial controller is no longer in picture. I would think that—without doing any research on it—I would have to say that Mayor Zenaida Moya must have been born when one special star was passing in the universe. It’s just incredible. It’s an incredible matter because there had been very, very serious attempts to find ways of asking Mr. Davis to turn against the mayor, to say something from his own internal knowledge being the financial controller. He was a man of some strong characteristics to resist that temptation and to subject himself, out of a deep self of loyalty and since he knew he had done nothing that he had decided to go out in deep waters in an attempt to assist the mayor and the City Council and, by extension, those of us who live in the city because he felt that the Belize City Council would have come to a grinding halt were it not for some attempts to see that workers were paid, services were being paid for and that is how he ended up being dragged before the court system knowing deep in his heart and his soul that he had done nothing criminally wrong. And so I think in his absence, it would be a real struggle for prosecution to proceed against the others.”