After the prosecution repeatedly failed to produce a case file on charges against a businessman allegedly held with an AK-47 and ammunition, Magistrate Dylon Bess sitting at the Diamond Magistrate Court yesterday dismissed the charges, the man’s attorney Bernard Da Silva said
The lawyer said the magistrate freed businessman West Pickering, following his application for a dismissal based on the prosecution’s continuous demonstration of lack of preparedness.
Pickering was charged in August and placed on $700,000 bail, the lawyer said, and despite repeated warnings by the magistrate, the prosecution failed to make disclosure of statements and relevant evidence.
