Constable Shane Lyons (left) and Corporal Patrick Coke (foreground) walk free from the Kraal murder trial at the Supreme Court yesterday.
DR. CAROLYN Gomes, director of human rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ), told The Gleaner her organisation was "disappointed in the outcome" of the Kraal trial yesterday.
SSP Reneto Adams and two other policemen were yesterday freed of murder.
The JFJ official said, "There are questions that are left unanswered. Who will answer for the deaths of people who had no gun powder residue on their hands?
"There are a lot of issues this country will have to grapple with, like the rule of law. I hope it won't take the death of a prominent person, but it seems the road to it is littered with graves."
Meanwhile, chairman of Families Against State Terrorism, Yvonne McCalla-Sobers, said she believed the jury, defence and the prosecution worked well in the Kraal murder trial.
Mrs. McCalla-Sobers stated that the five-and-a-half-hour deliberation indicated that the case was "not a walkover".
She said, however, there was a weakness in the case in relation to consideration given to forensic evidence.
"We all in this area need to apply forensic (evidence) better," she said, adding there must also be improvements in the conduct of investigations, including the preservation of crime scenes.
