The case against two accused murderers has gone down the now famous route of “nolle prosequi,” as this morning, Crown Counsel Trienia Young was forced to call it quits and enter a nolle prosequi in the Supreme Court of Justice Adolph Lucas.
The trial began with three men, but earlier this month, on June 5, the third accused, Jamie Chavarria, walked out of the court after the DPP entered a nolle prosequi on his behalf. The trial of the remaining two men, Edwin Flowers, 24, and Daniel Anderson, 21, that began last Wednesday, June 24, came to a screeching halt today.
The three men were accused of the double murder of Kevia Leslie, 24, and Dorian Michael, 32, that occurred on the night of March 5, 2007.
Because the DPP had given no reason why the nolle prosequi was entered for Chavarria, it is widely believed that he had turned Crown witness and would have testified against the other two remaining accused men, Flowers and Anderson.
But after three days of hearing and the testimony of fourteen witnesses, the prosecution’s star witness, Chavarria, did not appear on the witness stand. In effect, this put the prosecution’s case in serious trouble.
Information to Amandala suggests that Chavarria went into hiding because his life had been threatened.
On the night of March 5, 2007, Kevia Leslie and Dorian Michael were kidnapped from in front of the Freetown gas station. They were taken up the Northern Highway after the kidnappers commandeered Michael’s van, which they had used as a getaway vehicle after they had committed a robbery of the gas station from where the couple were kidnapped.
The couple was driven to a feeder road just off the Haulover Bridge, somewhere between Mile 5 and 6 on the Northern Highway. At this spot, they were murdered, execution style—with one bullet to the back of the head.
Although the spot the killers chose to carry out the executions was the scene of another homicide and policemen were there on the watch, guarding a corpse that had been discovered, the men were not immediately caught.
They drove off in Michael’s van, which was later discovered in the Lake Independence area of Belize City.