November 23, 2024
Ocho Rios, St. Ann. Jamaica
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Court awaits forensic psychiatric report for men in ‘Bread truck’ driver murder case

The men, implicated in the 2013 murder of a St Ann bread truck driver, are to return to the St Mary Circuit Court on July 14 to see whether they are fit to be pleaded.

A forensic psychiatric report that was ordered for both men from the February sitting of the circuit was not ready.

The two St Mary men, charged with various offences including murder that had arisen from a robbery attempt, were further remanded into custody.

Jason Brown of Ramble and Horace Ward of Wellington, both in St Mary, are the men charged with murder, shooting with intent, wounding with intent and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition.

Milton Lue was killed in the robbery attempt on Wednesday, January 16, 2013. Lue, 43 years old, of Breadnut Hill, near Ocho Rios was shot once in the head. His assistant, 41-year-old Envoy Williams of Lewis, St Ann was wounded in the incident.

When the matter appeared before the court on Monday, July 3, assistant director of public prosecutions, Yanique Gardener-Brown, explained to presiding judge Justice Dale Palmer that a forensic psychiatric report ordered was not ready. The men had been seen by a psychiatrist, but the report was not yet prepared.

Justice Palmer enquired whether the report was to determine if the men were fit to be pleaded, which the prosecutor confirmed that was the case.

A mention date of July 14 was later set in the matter for the men to return on that date.

Ward and Brown were further remanded into custody.