KINGSTON, Jamaica – Saying that he will have to be instructed by his client, Shane Williams’ attorney Everton Dewar told OBSERVER ONLINE late Friday that it is “highly likely” an action will be brought against the State following his client’s acquittal in the Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams murder trial.

Of the five accused in the murder – including dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer; Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Campbell; Kahira Jones; and Andre ‘Mad Suss’ St John – Williams was the only one found not guilty by the jury on Thursday.

Dewar said an action of false imprisonment is now likely.

“We are creatures of instructions, so as a result, when I go see him tomorrow (Saturday, March 15), I will be able to comment, but it is highly likely because he has been depressed,” Dewar said. “He has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder so we are trying to get some psychological assessment for him as soon as he is out.”

Up to late Friday, Williams, although acquitted, was still not released from police custody. His attorney said first thing Saturday he will visit his client to see exactly how he is doing.

Dewar told OBSERVER ONLINE that his client was the only one acquitted because the evidence against him was somewhat different.

The attorney said that the Crown presented what is called voice identification and a video, which they ascribed to his client. However, Dewar said his client maintained from the very beginning that he did not know the witness who “purported to say this is my client’s voice”.

Dewar also described as “ironic” that his client had to “sit there in the same position since the 18th of November last year” when the witness failed to identify him after attending court for two weeks, pointing out the other co-accused, but not Williams.

“And the fact is that the last day, as the Crown is about to close its case, what the prosecution did they put up a photograph dated the 29th of September 2011 and they are saying the allegation was on the 16th of August 2011, and the prosecution purported to ask him [witness] if he knew my client by way of a photograph, and he said ‘yes’,” Dewar said, adding, “and [he] gave a name of ‘Terrence’ and said he knew him but he didn’t know him to talk to, spoke to him two or three times, the last time was in August of 2011.”

Williams maintained that he was not ‘Terrence’ and insisted ‘Terrence’ was not his alias.

“… This is the only evidence that they have, why was he arrested in the first place, and it was just coming out on February 13, 2014?” Dewar reasoned.

“It is sad that the judge didn’t uphold the no case submission that was made, because the same points on which I guided the judge, the judge used the same authority to guide the jury, but yet they didn’t uphold the no case submission that I made,” the defence attorney told OBSERVER ONLINE.

After 65 days of trial and deliberation for just over two hours by the 11-member jury, Williams is to walk free. His co-accused are to be sentenced on March 27.

All five men were on trial for Clive Williams’ murder after being accused by the police of summoning him and another man to a house in Havendale, St Andrew, in August 2011, to give account for missing firearms. Williams’ body was never found.