“Pete” walks when witness fails to appear

In the Supreme Court, twenty-nine year old George Mathews Junior, also known as ‘Pete’, charged with the Attempted Murder of twenty seven-year old Derrick Munnings, was freed today of the charge by Justice Herbert Lord when Crown Counsel Frances Turner entered a nolle prosequi indicating that the prosecution cannot proceed. The trial had already started and three witnesses had given testimony but two of the main witnesses, Munnings and Shawn Godoy could not be located causing the prosecutor to comment that it seemed the two had been abducted by aliens. Justice Lord discharged the jury and told Mathews he was free to go.

The incident occurred at about seven o’clock on November twelfth on Fern lane. It was alleged that Mathews shot Munnings in his upper left shoulder because he found Munnings talking to Godoy, who was his ex-girlfriend. One of the witnesses, Godoy’s mother testified that Matthews began arguing and beating her daughter but it was after she intervened, that Matthews left. He returned fifteen minutes after with a gun, which he threatened Godoy with. Thereafter, a neighbor testified that she heard five shots being fired with one of which caught Munnings.