Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A retrial has been ordered for 20-year-old labourer Ziggy Mills of Salt Pond Road, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, who is charged with the murder of 36-year-old Kevin Thomas, manager of the Rivoli Football Club in Spanish Town.
The jurors deliberated for 75 minutes yesterday and told Justice Wesley James that they could not arrive at a unanimous verdict.
Mills will return to the Home Circuit Court when attorneys-at-law George Traille and Sean Kinghorn, who are representing him, will make a bail application and another date set for his second trial.
The Crown, represented by prosecutors Donald Bryan and Dale Palmer, had relied on a dying declaration given by Thomas to prove its case against Mills.
Shot and Stabbed
Thomas, who was also called 'Keegan', was shot and stabbed on October 6, 2005. Shortly before he died that same day at the Spanish Town Hospital, he told the police that it was "Ziggy from de la Vega City" who shot him.
He also told a policewoman, who was at the hospital, that he knew Mills and told her who Mills' mother was and where she lived.
The medical evidence was that all three injuries were fatal.
In an unsworn statement from the dock, Mills said he had nothing to do with the murder.
