THE JURY is expected to hand down a verdict today at the trial of the two men charged with the near five-year-old murder of Tahj Burrell, 20, and Jason Eldridge, 22.
Carl McHargh, 30, a customs broker from Kingston and Brian Rankine, 26, have been on trial in the Home Circuit Court since February 23 this year.
The Crown, represented by Bryan Sykes, senior deputy director of public prosecutions, and Meridian Kohler, Crown Counsel, led evidence that jealousy was the motive for the murder, based on a close social relationship which Burrell had with McHargh's former girlfriend.
Mr. Justice Basil Reid began summing up to the jury yesterday and will continue the summation when the trial resumes today.
Burrell, son of Captain Horace Burrell, former president of the Jamaica Football Federation, and Elridge, son of Noel Elridge, retired assistant commissioner of police, were gunned down on the night of July 28, 1999 at Northside Plaza, Liguanea, St. Andrew, when they went 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 was then reportedly the highest sum to have been offered for information through that office.
