Man walks free of murder charge as witness recants statement

A man who was charged with Murder walked free after the only eyewitness against him recanted and withdrew her statement. Thirty year old Roger Anthony left Magistrates’ Court to freedom when, acting on the advice of D.P.P. Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Tait, Magistrate Dorothy Flowers withdrew the charge because the eyewitness gave a new statement, saying she did not see the accused shoot Kirk Ortega. Anthony was also charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder and that charge was similarly withdrawn. Another man, Joseph Panting, who was charged in Ortega’s shooting on September fourth 2007, had the charges dismissed three weeks ago. Ortega’s assailant wore a bullet proof vest and shot him six times; three times in his abdomen; once in the back of his neck, genitals and left side of his jaw.