Murder charge dropped as star witness suffers acute amnesia

Errol Haynes

Arthur Young

Calvin Young, the son of James Young Sr., a businessman of Belama Phase 1 was stabbed twenty five times to the body after an altercation inside Apartment on Juliet Soberanis Street. That was in November of 2007. In April 2009, a prison inmate Floyd Wade told the DPP’s office that Arthur Young and Errol ‘Butchy’ Haynes were responsible for the stabbing of Calvin Young.  It seemed like an easy conviction but it went downhill from the first day of trial.  Today was the second day and the case came to a grinding halt.  Crown Council Trienia Young concluded Tuesday’s session by treating one of her clients as a hostile witness.   And the crown witness, Floyd Wade also known as Hyde, suffered a case of temporary amnesia when he took the witness stand.   Floyd is serving two years in prison for illegal firearm and ammunition.  Shortly after eleven a.m. Floyd told the judge “I don’t remember what happened in that room.  I don’t want to speak in this court, and I don’t know those persons.” The crown council entered a nolle prosequi.  Justice Michele Arana immediately discharged Wade from the stand and he was taken back to the Hattieville Prison. Though they were freed on the murder charge, Young and Haynes were taken back into custody to check on their records. Haynes was eventually freed but Young remains in police custody as he is expected to be charged with failure to report himself to the police as a deportee.