Alleged Klans leader ‘Blackman’, two others found guilty in deportee’s murder
Alleged Klansman Gang leader Andre “Blackman” Bryan and two of his co-accused have been pronounced guilty of enabling the 2018 murder of a deported man on Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Prosecutors argued that the hit was ordered by Bryan.
Count 15 of the 25-count indictment had charged the accused Jahzeel Blake, Michael Whitely, Brian Morris and Bryan with facilitating the commission of an applicable offence by a criminal organisation.
Blake, however, was dropped from that count following a successful non-case submission. The defendant Ted Prince was mentioned in the evidence of the witnesses but had not been indicted for the murder.
On Thursday afternoon, trial judge Chief Justice Bryan Sykes, in handing down the verdict on that count, said Bryan, Whitely and Morris “are guilty”.
– Alicia Dunkley-Willis