SPANISH TOWN:
SPECIAL CORPORAL Lascelles Fuller and Staff Officer Baron Bennett, who were charged with breaches of the Correctional Services Act for allegedly conspiring to smuggle contraband into the St. Catherine District Prison were yesterday freed of the charges because of lack of evidence.
Resident Magistrate Lorna Errar-Gayle dismissed the case and suggested the men should retire in the public interest.
Fuller and Bennett were arrested and charged in October last year, along with two inmates, Rohan Marsh and Stafford Madden from the St. Catherine District Prison, for smuggling six cartons of Matterhorn cigarettes, 21 cartons of Craven A, one nylon rice bag with 20 pounds of refined tobacco, three boxes of rizzler, three rum cream, 2lbs of pork and a television set in a prison truck.
Marsh and Madden pleaded guilty to the charges, but Fuller and Bennett maintained they were innocent when they appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court in October last year.
When they appeared in court yesterday, the Crown did not have sufficient evidence to establish a case against them. The RM after dismissing the case, urged them to retire in the public's interest.
Fuller worked at the transport section of the Correctional Services Department and Bennett is attached to the St. Catherine District Prison.
