Janice Allen-case to the Privy Council

[Tuff Gong]

Family of slain teen to take case to the Privy Council
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The family of slain teenager Janice Allen has been given the green light to take its long-standing legal fight to the UK based Privy Council.

The Appeal Court on Tuesday morning granted final leave to Milicent Forbes to take her grouse over the controversial shooting death of her daughter to the Privy Council.

Ms Forbes is challenging the not guilty verdict handed down in 2004 against the policeman implicated in the shooting.

Human Rights Lobby Group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ), which is providing legal counsel, says the family has been fighting the case since 2000.

Executive Director of JFJ, Dr. Carolyn Gomes, expressed confidence that the case will once again be in the public domain.

Janice was fatally shot in 2000 during a reported gun battle between the police and gunmen in the volatile area of Trench Town in South St. Andrew.

When the matter came up for trial in 2004 the prosecution did not present a case and the judge instructed the jury to return a not guilty verdict.

The family has been trying to get the verdict set aside in the local courts since that time.

Tuesday Janice would have celebrated her 21st birthday.

http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/2118/26/

[Diplomat]

Re: Janice Allen-case to the Privy Council

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When the matter came up for trial in 2004 the prosecution did not present a case...</div></div>
They had no compelling evidence or simply decided not to prosecute? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Janice Allen-case to the Privy Council

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When the matter came up for trial in 2004 the prosecution did not present a case...</div></div>
They had no compelling evidence or simply decided not to prosecute? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img] </div></div>

Well a number of things happened.
A leaf from the Station Diary went missing.
Then it was claimed a fire occurred at the Station and all the records pertaining to the case were destroyed.

The Crime Scene as usual was not secured, the witnesses were threatened, the parents and friends and family arrested on spurious charges or harassed in various ways.

The police involved is one of my brother's best friends I told him if it was my sister I don't think the outcome would have been in his favour, my brother has not really spoken to me since, might just be a coincidence.

[Diplomat]

Re: Janice Allen-case to the Privy Council

Mmmm...strange series of details regarding the case. For sure, this one doesn't pass the smell test [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Janice Allen-case to the Privy Council

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mmmm...strange series of details regarding the case. For sure, this one doesn't pass the smell test [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img] </div></div>

Well it is the norms in Jamaica trust me.
Carolyn Gomes of JFJ was on Motty Perkins today going over the same sequence of events that I posted, what was even more frightening was the Cop is back on the job stationed in the same Division, at the same Station, yards away from where the mother of Janice Allen lives.
She even mentioned that the same Officer that pushed the mother out of the Station when she went to report the one of the threats against her is still in charge of the Station.
So that is how it works in Jamaica.