THE DEPOSITIONS from the Braeton Seven case have been to the offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Kent Pantry, yesterday afternoon, eight months after an inquest into the case ended.The depositions were sent on Friday from the Coroner's Court in Spanish Town, where a nine-month inquest into the case had ended in October 2002 with the jurors divided six to four that no one was criminally responsible for the deaths.
Although the ruling from the court had found no one criminally responsible, the DPP can now review the depositions and determine whether anyone should be charged with the deaths of Christopher Grant, Tamayo Wilson, Andre Virgo, Dane Whyte, Lancebert Clarke, Curtis Smith and Reagon Beckford, who were shot dead during a police operation at 1088 Fifth Seal Way, Braeton Phase 3 on March 14, 2001.
The men were killed in a reported exchange of gunfire with members of the now defunct Crime Management Unit (CMU).
The police have held that they went to Fifth Seal Way to apprehend Christopher Grant, who was a suspect in the March 1, 2001 fatal shootings at the Above Rocks Police Station, St. Mary.
During that incident, a gunman, alleged to have been Grant, killed retired Customs officer Dennis Betton and Constable Dwight Gibson, 39, and wounded a woman.
The police said when they went to Braeton to arrest Grant, the occupants of the house fired shots at them. The police fired back, killing the seven.
