KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reputed Klansman gang leader Tesha Miller has filed a lawsuit against Television Jamaica (TVJ) claiming that he was defamed by the media house.

The television station is accused of defaming Miller during its primetime newscast on March 19.

Miller’s attorney, Bert Samuels, who indicated that his client has been at all material times a welder, said in the lawsuit, “The said word published by the defendant about the claimant in its evening news were false and intended to defame the claimant, as the claimant is not a gang leader in Spanish Town or any other area, neither has he been charged and/or convicted as a gang leader pursuant to the Criminal Justice (Suppression of Criminal Organization) Act of 2014 or any other law.”

Samuels further pointed out that the published words were not only calculated and intended to injure and malign Miller but also to expose him to hatred, contempt and ridicule and therefore intended also to lower him in the estimation of right thinking members of society including potential jurors.

Additionally, the lawyer pointed out in the lawsuit that the published words conveyed to the public that his client, who is to stand trial before a jury in the Supreme Court for offences of accessory before the fact to murder and accessory after the fact to a murder of the former Jamaica Urban Transit Company Chairman, Douglas Chambers, was in fact guilty of being a gang leader in Spanish Town and hence is capable of being involved in the said murder.

Tanesha Mundle