Tesha Miller ordered JUTC boss’ execution – witness tells court
A prosecution witness yesterday told the Home Circuit Court that Tesha Miller watched as thugs carried out the hit he allegedly ordered on then Jamaica Urban Transit Company Chairman Douglas Chambers 11 years ago.
The witness, a self-proclaimed former gangster, testified that Miller not only ordered the hit on Chambers, but was standing across from the bus depot in Spanish Town when the act was carried out.
The witness, who said he used to collect extortion money from taxi operators and businesses on behalf of the Spanish Town-based Clansman gang, testified that he and other men were instructed by Miller to go there to create a diversion on the evening of the killing. The witness cannot be named because of a court order.
The St Catherine native, who has been incarcerated at a maximum security prison for the last two years on a murder conviction, told the court that Miller instructed a man identified as ‘Blackman’ to carry out Chambers’ killing.
Miller is being tried for accessory before and after the fact to Chambers’ murder.
Earlier in the proceedings, a seven-member jury was empanelled following a polling exercise that sought to ascertain whether potential jurors held any prejudices against Miller.
Last week, attorney-at-law Bert Samuels, who is representing Miller, said this became necessary because of adverse publicity during the preliminary hearings.
the man who the alleged eye witness testify say shoot JUTC MAN was tried and found not guilty ?
I cant understand how they trying Tesha for this..since the alleged trigger man BLACKMAN was tried and found not guilty of it
Different charges on different people. In a jury trial anything can happen, it dont mean the alleged trigger man didnt do it, it just meant the evidence wasn’t enough to convince the jury. Tesha being charged as an accessory dont have a thing to do with the trigger man being found not guilty. We still have a deadman that we know a hit was sent out for.
still doesnt follow logic..system seems desperate trying to convict Tesha
This case dont make sense. The trigger man get wey with the murder and now u a try the orchestrator, both should be in prison for the crime along with the others.
THE man accused of murdering former Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Chairman Douglas Chambers was yesterday acquitted in the Home Circuit Court, six years after the matter was brought before the court.
Andre Bryan, who was on trial for the murder of Chambers in 2008, was found not guilty by six of the seven jurors.
Allegations are that on June 27, 2008, Chambers was shot dead at the JUTC depot in Spanish Town, St Catherine, after he had left a meeting to smoke a cigarette.
According to police reports, two gunmen, armed with a high-powered rifle and a .45 handgun, shot him repeatedly in the head.
The gunmen escaped on foot in bushes on the outskirts of a community known as Fish Ground — a volatile informal settlement which is notorious for its loyalty to the Klansman gang.
The prosecution had alleged that Chambers was killed because of a restructuring he was carrying out at the bus company at the time.
Bryan was arrested and charged in April 2010 after participating in an identification parade. He had remained in custody since then.
Following the verdict yesterday, Bryan’s aunt, who was overwhelmed with joy, said that she believes God has a plan for her nephew.
“I am just giving God thanks, God has given him another chance, thanks be to God. I know my nephew and I know that he was innocent,” she told the Jamaica Observer.
The woman, while noting that her nephew’s incarceration was unfair, said that she is not angry at the justice system.
“God kept him there, maybe if he was not there he would have been killed or killed on the road. I am very pleased with the result,” she added.
He was represented by Queen’s Counsel Valerie Neita-Robertson and attorney Kymberli Whittaker.
— Racquel Porter
Bwoy justice rare in Jamaica. Now if the trigger man acquitted it a go look like the witness no credible. Wa kinna backwards thing this? Kmt
Jamaica judicial shitstem nah go be any better because a case like this if Black man get off why Tesha inna court, Mi nuh condone nothing bout tesha miller from him put the phone up inna him ass fi go thru a prison, from deh so the so called boss shakey. But a years dem a collect and dem community run down so killin the buss director was just a proving thing. Honestly the way how jamaican so call Dons like tesha go prison often make you wonder if a batty dem have a prison because everytime dem hold him. Ok Tesha jamaica El Capo.
Jury sound like dem fraid fi dem life so dem just say cheaper we send him home enuh.
Den go yuh a prison fi di man life!
Di man guh school a study him book to reach weh him dah. Him nuh come from riches. Him used to be a conductor on a bus that runs along Molynes Road. Always see him buying a Guinness at the shop and saying he is going inside to go a study.
Was glad for him when he became the youngest person in Jamaica at that time to hold the ACCA certification.
Unnu ah some dutty johncrow unnu fi dead ah prison
RIP, Douglas.. I remember visiting Jamaica one summer and riding thru Tower Hill and Water House with Dougie In the early 90’s. We never know how our story will end… So trod wise everyone…. Judgement is everyday
Either way of him walk off case or not .. it shows times now a days required u fi flex solo cause good or bad… When trouble reach every man for himself
new site format hard to read MET
Im sorry but u will have to get used to it until its changed again this week