Cop loses appeal, to serve seven year sentence
published: Thursday | February 16, 2006

Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter

A POLICEMAN who shot and injured an unarmed man has been ordered by the Court of Appeal to serve his seven-year prison sentence.

He is 33-year-old Corporal Courtney Carridice who had appealed against his conviction for wounding with intent. A jury had convicted him in the Home Circuit Court in July last year.

Evidence was given at the trial that, on June 11, 2001, Carridice shot Matthew McLean on Albert Street, in Franklyn Town, Kingston.

McLean testified that he was walking along Albert Street when he saw policemen in a jeep. They told him to stop and he put his hands in the air. He was ordered to face a wall and one of the policemen searched him. The policeman informed the others that he did not have any weapon on him.