TWO FORMER schoolboys from the Old Harbour High School, St. Catherine, charged with the murder of a schoolmate on March 4 last year, appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday. They were each offered bail to return to court on October 15.
The boys, Sheldon Dwyer and Cleon Thompson, both 18, are charged with the murder of 17-year-old Leo Sullivan.
Ms Justice Kay Beckford offered Dwyer bail in the sum of $300,000 with a surety while Thompson was offered bail in the sum of $400,000, also with a surety.
It is alleged that on March 4 last year while sports day was in progress at the Old Harbour High School, the two accused and the deceased then students at the school took a walk into nearby bushes. It is alleged that they found an illegal gun and while one of the two accused was examining the weapon, it went off killing Sullivan.
The two accused appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday but their case was sent to the Home Circuit Court for trial. The court was told that a preliminary inquiry was not being held into the matter because the Director of Public Prosecutions had preferred a Voluntary Bill of Indictment for the case to go straight to trial.
Attorney-at-law Jack Hines is representing Dwyer while attorney-at-law Carl Lawrence is representing Thompson.
