THE CROWN is expected to call eight witnesses at the trial of two men charged with the 1999 double murder of 20-year-old Tahj Burrell and 22-year-old Jason Eldridge.
Carl McHargh, a 30-year-old customs broker from Kingston, and Brian Rankine, 26, went on trial Monday.
The Crown, represented by Brian Sykes, senior deputy director of public prosecutions, is alleging that jealousy was the motive for the murder based on a close 'social' relationship which Burrell had with McHargh's former girlfriend.
Three witnesses have so far testified at the 'in camera' trial which continued yesterday before Mr. Justice Basil Reid and a jury in the Home Circuit Court.
Burrell, son of Captain Horace Burrell, immediate past president of the Jamaica Football Federation, and Elridge, son of retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Noel Elridge, were gunned down on the night of July 28, 1999 at Northside Plaza, Liguanea, St. Andrew. They had gone there to buy pizza.
Captain Burrell, through the Crime Stop programme, had offered a $1 million bounty for information leading to the conviction of his son's killers. The reward then was reportedly the highest sum to have been offered for information through that office.
