Alleged Klansman gangster ‘Citypuss’ has case to answer – judge
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The prosecution’s case against alleged top lieutenant in the Klansman gang, Jason Brown, otherwise known as Citypuss or Lucifer, which had last Wednesday looked decidedly shaky after trial judge Chief Justice Bryan Sykes challenged the absence of independent evidence to ground the evidence presented against him, is after all standing.
The trial judge in a ruling Monday morning said Brown, who is named on count two of the indictment which charges all the 28 remaining accused with “membership of a criminal organisation”, has a case to answer.
Brown, who was the last accused to be pointed out in the trial based on the fact that the two main witnesses said they had never seen him in person but had spoken to him via telephone, has been behind bars since 2012.
However, in recordings of telephone conversations between the alleged gangsters played into the records of the court earlier during the trial , a voice supposedly belong to Brown was heard describing how using his self-assigned moniker ‘Lucifer’ he extorted residents of St Catherine and drove fear into their hearts.
So far, four defendants of the original 33 accused who had been standing trial since last September were freed by the judge last month following an admission by the Crown that the evidence held was insufficient. A fifth defendant also walked following a no case submission by his attorney leaving the 28 to face the music.
Of the 25 counts on the indictment, several have collapsed because no evidence was led or the evidence led was insufficient.
– Alicia Dunkley-Willis