Man charged for ex-girlfriend's death in Flat Bridge crash freed

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Man charged for ex-girlfriend's death in Flat Bridge crash freed

Thirty-nine-year-old Vincent Dunn, who was charged for the death of his ex-girlfriend in a vehicular crash in the Bog Walk Gorge, was freed in the St Catherine Circuit Court, after the Crown conceded it could not mount a successful prosecution....

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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