Bradshaw, King acquitted of gun, ammo, drug charges

Adrian Fitzgerald Bradshaw and Brian Barry King are free men.

After just over an hour of deliberation, a nine-member jury found Bradshaw, alias Peter Bradshaw, of Storey Gap, Codrington Hill, St Michael and King, of No 18 Hilltop, Pinelands, St Michael, not guilty of all the charges in a six-count indictment that included ammunition, firearms and cannabis offences.

The verdict came just around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday after a full day of a summation by trial judge Justice Randall Worrell. This resulted in Bradshaw, who had been on remand at Dodds since his arrest back in 2016, being released. King was on bail.

The two were on trial in the No. 2 Supreme Court jointly charged with possession of a .357 revolver, a .22 revolver, and a 9 mm pistol, along with 678 rounds of ammunition and well as possession and trafficking of 37.9 kilogrammes of cannabis on September 15, 2016.

In the evidence given by police, the guns, bullets, and drugs were inside feed bags and packed in the backseat of a pickup truck driven by King and seized at No. 2 Blades Hill, St Philip. King was held at the scene while the evidence was that Bradshaw escaped but was later apprehended.

In his defence, Bradshaw, who represented himself, was able to convince the jury that he was “nowhere in Blades Hill at the time I am accused of, neither did I travel in any vehicle to collect any bags to Storey Gap and go to Blades Hill at that time”.

King’s attorneys Dr Lenda Blackman, Simon Clarke and Ken Mason were successful in their defence that their client, who was moving items for another man, knew “nothing of these drugs and guns and ammunition”.

The case was prosecuted by Senior Crown Counsel Oliver Thomas.