Court frees man charged in relation to gun found in KFC box

A St Andrew upholster who was arrested and slapped with gun charges in connection with an illegal firearm found inside a KFC box in his father's motor car two years ago was yesterday freed when he appeared in the Gun Court.

Oshando Hylton was freed of illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition charges after Justice Carolyn Tie-Powell upheld a no-case submission made by his attorneys John Jacobs and Courtney Rowe.

Hylton was one of two men arrested on June 2, 2022, during a police patrol along Dumbarton Avenue in St Andrew.

The police reported that the men were seen standing near a vehicle which was searched and a Taurus nine millimetre pistol with a magazine containing twelve nine millimetre rounds of ammunition was found hidden in the KFC box.

However, the charges against his co-accused, Andre Lindsay, were later dismissed after the prosecution offered no evidence against him while Hylton proceeded to trial.

Following the completion of the prosecution’s case, Jacobs, during his submission, argued that the evidence before the court supported his client’s innocence and admission that he had no connection to the weapon.

He also submitted that the prosecution’s evidence was woefully weak and manifestly unreliable.

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