KINGSTON, Jamaica — Disbarred attorney-at-law Jennifer Messado survived a car crash in the Corporate Area on Tuesday when her vehicle rear-ended another vehicle after her brakes allegedly failed. Messado was briefly hospitalised, then discharged and is now recovering from her injuries.

“Jennifer came back from the hospital, she is fine. She was saved by her seatbelt and the airbags that deployed. What happened is that her brakes failed her and she ran into the back of the vehicle,” prominent attorney-at-law Christopher Townsend, who is representing Messado, told Observer Online.

In the meantime, Messado is expected to stand trial on December 5 on allegations that she defrauded dancehall entertainer Mavado of more than $30 million in a real estate deal in 2018. Townsend gave a brief update on the status of that case.

“The Mavado case has not started, they (the prosecution) never bothered with their application for Mavado to give evidence out of the jurisdiction, so it was adjourned. They feel they may not need him to make their case so there are some interesting times ahead,” Townsend said.

The Father God deejay, whose real name is David Brooks, had wanted to give his testimony via video link from the United States during an earlier trial date, and his attorney, Oswest Senior Smith had made an application to this effect. At the time, there was some doubt about his testimony as there had been talk of an outstanding warrant for the entertainer’s arrest in relation to an incident years ago.

Senior-Smith had said that the issue is moot because Mavado’s testimony was not “critical” to the case.

“From my perusal of the file, the critical witnesses are the two who gave the accused lawyer the various sums on behalf of Mr Brooks,” Senior-Smith said at the time.

“Mr Brooks’ potential testimony is little more than providing a framework.”

— Claude Mills