A couple was yesterday freed of firearm charges in the Gun Court after police witnesses gave conflicting statements.

Ricardo Palmer, son of popular singer Tristan Palmer and his girlfriend Nekiesha Spence, were arrested after police went to a premises at Waterford in Portmore, St Catherine and found two guns and a quantity of ammunition.

The firearms, a Berso Thunder 380 pistol and a chrome handgun, were found in drawers in a bedroom Spence occupied.

Constable Perilee Sinclair said he looked through a glass door and saw Palmer remove the chrome gun from his waist and put it in a dresser drawer. Sinclair said the couple ran from the room when he entered.

He said Spence was scantily dressed as if she was preparing to go to bed.

The police ordered the couple back into the house and Spence admitted that she was responsible for the room.

Palmer denied being at the house when the cops arrived. In an unsworn statement he said he left the house earlier because of a dispute between himself and Spence's uncle. He said he was picked up by the police while walking towards a friend's house.

The four officers who raided the house said they took Palmer and the guns to the Greater Portmore police station but another cop said the two accused and the guns were handed over to him at the Waterford Police Station.

Spence denied seeing Palmer with any guns and said he came to the house as she was about to go to bed and left.

She was represented by Michael Lorne while Palmer was represented by Valerie Neita-Robertson.