Fearful complainant wants case thrown out

• Author: TIFFANY TAYLOR
• Published date: 29 April 2022
• Publication title: Jamaica Star, The (Kingston, Jamaica)

The complainant told the judge that he did not wish to have the matter continued, as he and his family were being threatened

"Your Honour, it has been over a year now and it seems that the defendant, I think he is getting extremely frustrated," the complainant said in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

"I have received information that he put my wife and I down in the grave. I have reported it to the police and we have talked about it and I don't think we want to continue with the matter," he said.

The defendant in the matter, Andre Henry, has been in custody since he pleaded guilty to embezzlement and simple larceny last year. He has paid back $400,000 of the $900,000 that was embezzled.

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Henry told the judge that he had grown frustrated while in the lock-ups, as he questioned the reason he was remanded after securing employment to continue restitution. He is claimed to have used the words, "Come een like dem wah dead" -- in reference to the complainant -- but said that his intention was not to threaten him.

"I never meant it, surprisingly, it go to the ear of the complainant. The officer came to the lock-up and brought it to me, and I addressed it, and I apologised for it. I never meant it that way. Really and...