Case moves to another court

Witnesses in a manslaughter trial in which a son is accused of killing his father, were expected to begin giving evidence in the matter before the High Court on Thursday.

However that did not happen after attorneys in the matter made submissions in the absence of the jury which led Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell to dismiss the jury.

The High Court judge explained to jurors that issues had been raised in the matter and as such the trial could not proceed before her No. 3 Supreme Court.

The case, in which Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale had already given his opening address to the jury, was then transferred to Supreme Court No. 3 before Justice Carlisle Greaves.

After Seale and defence attorneys Andrew Pilgrim Q.C. and Leslie
Cargill Straker addressed Justice Greaves on the matter, the judge granted an adjournment in the case until Thursday.

Renaldo Mikhail Trotman, of Green Park Lane, St Michael has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter in the March 23, 2012 death of Sylvan Trotman, his father.