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The St Kitts Nevis Observer Page:1 The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday November 29th, 2019 NEWS Page:2 The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday November 29th, 2019 NEWS Man faces attempted murder charge Shooting victim recalls close Lawton Forbes faces charges of attempted murder, call with bullet wounding and possession By Kenichi Serino “I told my girlfriend surgery on Tuesday. ‘let’s go’, and we began The trial of Lawton to run to our vehicle,” While Morton sur- Forbes who is charged said Morton. vived, the shooting left with attempted murder, him with injuries and a wounding with intent “As we were running, long road to recovery. and possession of -a Ifire could see shadows He now has a steel pin arm and ammunition moving toward us. So in his arm, pain and had began this week with the we just tried to hurry to initially lost the use of testimony of thevictim the vehicle.” his hand. of the 2016 shooting that the accused is alleged to Morton’s girlfriend got “I had to get physical therapy to gain some movement...and get “I heard another backstrength in the hand,” said Morton. gunshot and the But while he could hear the shots, Morton told the court he did not driver side window know who fired the gun which injured him. shattered,” Morton Crown Prosecutor Vaugh Woodley told the jury that when said. “I realised I police had gone to in- vestigate the shooting was hit in the right they saw Forbes at the scene. When police approached him “he elbow.” took off running,’ said Woodley. have perpetrated. into the passenger side of the vehicle and he On Monday, senior court sat in the driver’s.But Woodley alleged that clerk Darnell Morton before he could leave a police saw Forbes dis- testified that on the- gunshot eve was fired. card a silver firearm as ning of March 4,2016, he was fleeing. Police he was sitting on the sea “I heard another gun- later caught up and ar- wall with his girlfriend, shot and the driver side rested him. waiting to pick up his window shattered,” mother afterher shift at Morton said. “I realised the Alexandra Hospital. I was hit in the right elbow.” Forbes has pleaded not “We were just relaxing, guilty. He is represen ted really,” said Morton. It Morton drove himself by Chesley Hamilton. was then that he heard to the hospital where he Justice Trevor Warde gunshots and he and his was treated. The shoot- QC is presiding over girlfriend went to his ing happened on aFri- the case. car to leave. day and he would have NEWS The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday November 29th, 2019 Page:3 State to appeal Brantley Calls Out Court Buzz Makers ruling for Buzz Makers and said this was not true. Sharon Brantley said that highly unusual,” said the that the white person was she did not see the two premier. McMillan. “The evidence on which occupants of the vehicle this warrant was ob- and therefore could not The premier defended Sharon Brantley would tained was patently false, have identified McMillan Carty as an “excellent of- testify in court that she because Inspector Carty as one of the occupants. ficer of the law” and said did not see a drone with could have had no rea- it was also not unusual if the two men and con- sonable cause to believe “I do not believe that the police investigate be- cluded that the drone be- that these items, namely, Mrs. Brantley saw the fore determining whether longed to them because controlled drugs, fire- claimant in the rented ve- a crime had taken place, their vehicle was the only arms and ammunition, hicle as this was not her including in the case of one in the area. She also were at the place where evidence at trial,” said Sharon Brantley making conceded that a drone the claimant allegedly Ventose. a complaint. could be piloted from a stayed in while in Nevis,” distance and that the ve- said Ventose. “It is more likely than “It is putting the police hicle was not behaving not that Mrs. Brantley in an impossible position suspiciously. In his ruling, Ventose was not telling the truth where they would have called on the DPP to in- to Inspector Carty when to determine whether a In its judgement, the vestigate whether Carty she reported that the two crime has been commit- Premier of Nevis Mark Brantley on Wednesday court criticised Carty for had committed perjury of the three photos she ted before an investiga- criticised a High Court ruling that found the the arrest of McMillian in giving his testimony to found of the claimant and tion is done,” said Mark arrest of a man suspected of operating a drone for “invasion of privacy”, the court. He also called another resembled the Brantley. “How will the which the court did not on the Police Services men she allegedly saw in police know until they at his home to be unlawful. exist as an offence de- Commission to investi- the rented vehicle.” investigate?” spite the officer claiminggate Carty for potential that was his belief. misconduct. During his press brief- “The investigation may By Kenichi Serino of company Buzz Makers ing on Wednesday, reveal that no crime against Inspector Alonzo “I do not believe the evi- The court also broached Mark Brantley slammed was committed but that The government will Carty and the Attorney dence of Inspector Carty. the matter of possible po- the ruling and accused is why you have the appeal a High Court rul- General of St. Kitts and During his cross-exami- litical interference in the the court of “[eroding] investigation.” ing that found that St. Nevis. nation, he smiled repeat- investigation. Ventose the confidence in our Kitts and Nevis police edly before answering. noted that Carty had said institutions.” “Remove the fact that the unlawfully arrested an According to the ruling, I believe that Inspector that the fact that Sharon person making the com- American political con- McMillan was detained Carty was knowingly Brantley was the wife “There is a concern for plaint is my wife...if that sultant, found a police at Robert L Bradshaw telling falsehoods to the of Mark Brantley, then reputational damage for happened to you and you officer of “knowinglyAirport on Dec 4, 2017. court,” said Ventose. the deputy premier of the police. Some of the reported it to the police... telling falsehoods to the He was then taken to Nevis, “did not influencelanguage employed in would you not want him court” and suggested Basseterre police station “The court got the dis- his decision to arrest the the judgement was in my to take your report seri- that First Lady of Nevis where he was arrested tinct impression that claimant and that he did view unfortunate,” said ously and investigate?” Sharon Brantley “not by Carty on suspicion of Inspector Carty was at- not receive any instruc- Mark Brantley. being truthful” in a state- “invasion of privacy”. He tempting to cover up his tions to detain the claim- Mark Brantley said that ment to the police. was detained for about unlawful arrest of the ant before he started the “That language sought to his wife was correct 12 hours before being claimant or that he was investigation.’ impugn the integrity of in making a complaint “I don’t agree with any- released. protecting someone or very senior members of about the drone, saying thing the judge said. I’ve someone else. Ventose said that Sharon the police force.” that it could have been seen the judgement and While in police custody, Brantley “did the cor- operated by potential I think that is why we his personal items were The court added that rect thing” in reporting “When we have attacks thieves or carried weap- have appellate courts,” searched and his elec- it did not believe that the drone to the police. on institutions such as ons, saying she was “dis- said Nevis Premier tronic devices, including Carty was aware of the However, he added that our police...We lead tressed” at its presence. Mark Brantley during two mobile phones, taken offence of watching and the police must carry out ourselves in a very dan- his press conference on from him. An apartment besetting when it arrested their investigations “in a gerous situation where “I have never known my Wednesday. that he allegedly stayed McMillan. neutral way. from the top we erode wife in all my years of in was also searched by confidence in our institu- knowing her to be a per- “Judges can say what police. “I also find that Inspector However, the court found tions,” said the premier. son to make up stories,” they wish, they are Carty only later re- that while Brantley was said the premier. judges, but just like you searched the matter to correct in making a com- Mark Brantley said the and I, they misinterpret, find a justification for plaint,his it is still likely that judge had overreached in When contacted by the they get things wrong, McMillan had been ar- arrest of the claimant,” her status as the wife of calling for the a perjury Observer, St. Kitts and they sometimes come to rested following a report Ventose said. Mark Brantley factored investigation of Carty. Nevis Police declined to matters with a particular by Sharon Brantley that in the arrest of McMillan. comment and referred to perspective.” she had seen a drone fly- The court also criticised “It is not unusual for a questions to the Director ing over her home, which the search of the apart- “It is more likely than not judge to say I prefer the of Public Prosecutions.
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