Not guilty of manslaughter

Rasheed Sylvester “Scoobie” Cox no longer has a manslaughter case to answer.

The case against Cox, of Block 5E Ocean Road, Deacons Farm, St Michael, who was accused of unlawfully killing Veldene Hinds on May 4, 2016, was discontinued on Wednesday, when the jury was directed by Justice Elwood Watts to return a formal not guilty verdict.

The court found that timeframes given by two police officers overlapped.

A voir dire was held during the trial, where defence counsel Shadia Simpson argued about the overlap; where one station diary showed that her client was in one police station giving a statement, while another diary showed him in the other doing the same thing. She further submitted that hours
had passed before he had been offered rations and he had been beaten by police.

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