THE ATTORNEY representing George Williams, the man who has been incarcerated without trial for 50 years, said that his client is anxiously awaiting the judge’s decision when his case resumes today at the St Catherine Circuit Court in Spanish Town.
“We are hoping that when he returns to court, he will be released ultimately, which is the general hope that the director of public prosecutions (DPP) will offer a nolle prosequi against Mr Williams,” Isat Buchanan told The Gleaner on Tuesday.
Williams is one of seven mentally ill men identified in the Independent Commission of Investigations report who have each spent at least 40 years in prison awaiting trial.
His case was brought to the public’s attention when he penned a gut-wrenching application to the High Court to pour out his soul about the nearly five decades he has spent in an infested maximum-security prison awaiting trial and to win his freedom, stating that he did not “want to die like Noel Chambers”.
Chambers died on January 27 this year after spending 40 years in the Jamaican prison system awaiting trial for murder, a report by the INDECOM revealed.
