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Defence attorneys representing Oscar Barnes on Friday reiterated that there was “absolutely” no evidence presented in the trial connecting him to Tonia McDonald’s murder, while imploring the jury to return a not-guilty verdict. Attorney-at-law...

Arguments done

The defence representing murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald began its closing arguments on Tuesday in what lead attorney Christopher Townsend told the jury pool was not a difficult case. Townsend told the seven-member jury that his...

Justice Chester Stamp yesterday shot down a move by murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald’s defence team to have him freed by way of a no-case submission, with the courtroom subsequently descending into chaos. McDonald, 69, is charged...

Conspiracy out, but accused must face murder charge

The contract killer in the murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald on Thursday broke down in tears and refused to answer questions about his son’s whereabouts. Denvalyn Minott, the prosecution’s key witness, who claimed he was hired by...

Witness faces cross-examination on secret recordings

The Portland fisherman who confessed to being the contract killer in Tonia’s McDonald’s murder had reportedly offered to murder the woman, who he claimed was his lover, at his home. Murder convict Denvalyn Minott made the revelation as he...

Denvalyn "Bubbla" Minott, the star witness in the Everton "Beachy Stout" McDonald murder trial, testified on Wednesday that one of the 38 secret recordings he claimed he made of phone calls between himself and businessman Beachy Stout was of a discussion to lure Tonia McDonald to her death under the guise of purchasing two guns. During the trial at the Home Circuit Court in Kingston, one of the businessman's five...

Confessed contract killer and murder convict, Denvalyn "Bubbla" Minott, made a damning claim on Wednesday, stating that he implicated his son in a murder plot to protect Oscar Barnes. Oscar Barnes is currently on trial for murder in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston along with Everton "Beachy Stout" McDonald in connection with the murder of McDonald's second wife, Tonia McDonald. Tonia was murdered on the main road in Sherwood...