Police Corporal Clayton Lawrence, who was accused of abducting two men from a plaza along Washington Boulevard in December 2004, was freed earlier this week. He was freed when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

The Crown withdrew the charges against Lawrence on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence.

Lawrence was charged with two counts of false imprisonment and assault.

Prosecutor Hansurd Lawson told Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey that some of the witnesses had migrated and the statements given by other witnesses were conflicting.

The men, 20-year-old Kemar Walters of Kitson Town, St. Catherine, and 28-year-old Oliver Duncan, of Olympic Gardens, St. Andrew, have not been seen since they were allegedly abducted on December 23, 2004.

It was alleged that men claiming to be policemen from the Organised Crime Investigative Division had forced the men into motor cars. The Director of Pubic Prosecutions had ruled in January 2005 that Lawrence should be charged.