While the prosecution had said that it was unable to locate a key witness to testify against Matthew Munroe who had spent the last five years on remand awaiting trial for the murder of schoolteacher Kescia Branche, his legal team has rejected this claim.
At a press conference yesterday morning, lead attorney Dexter Todd said that the State’s case against his client was purely circumstantial and really had nothing to do with any missing witness or witnesses.
On that point the attorney bemoaned the incidents of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) instituting charges which cannot stand, and as he contends in the instant case, showed no connection by Munroe with the commission of the crime.