Untouchable - DPP gave Danhai immunity in Kraal case
December 21, 2005
DANHAI WILLIAMS, People's National Party activist and businessman, had been granted immunity by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to testify against Reneto Adams.
DPP Kent Pantry confirmed the information on the weekend.
"I gave him immunity for him to be able to come and give evidence," he told The Gleaner.
A DPP can grant immunity to someone to testify against others in a criminal matter without that person fearing prosecution.
Despite the immunity, Williams never turned up to testify in the Kraal trial, claiming later that he was being forced to lie under oath. He made this admission recently while appearing in the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC)/Operation PRIDE fraud case in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.
Williams is being represented in that case by Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, who was a member of SSP Adams' defence team. If Williams had testified, Mrs. Samuels-Brown would have been forced to cross-examine him, her client in another case.
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Author: Omar Anderson
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
