The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

THE lack of a psychiatric report on a man convicted of murdering a policeman outside a club on Independence Day delayed his sentencing yesterday.

Pachino Lundy, who was unanimously convicted in July of murder after undergoing retrial, will return to Supreme Court on September 28 to learn his sentence for causing the death of Police Constable Henry Curry.

Yesterday, a probation and psychiatric report was supposed to be presented to the court.

However, prosecutor Anthony Delaney said the psychiatric report was not ready and requested an adjournment.

Lundy had been on bail for nearly a year after his first trial in 2011 was declared a mistrial, due to an 11-1 guilty verdict by the last jury that heard the evidence before Justice Roy Jones.

However, the 12-member jury in this retrial was unanimously convinced that Lundy had murdered Police Constable Curry outside the Odley Kemp Bar on Independence morning, 2005.

The off-duty constable had been outside the northern East Street bar on that Sunday morning, when he was shot in the back.

Prosecutor Anthony Delaney alleged that Lundy was responsible for the shooting, which took place around 2am, and that he made his escape in a black Chevy Monte Carlo.

During the trial, two key witnesses – one a driver passing at the time, the other a relative of the victim who was at the club – testified that they saw the incident happen and pointed out Lundy in court as the culprit.

Lundy, from his arraignment in Supreme Court through the conclusion of both trials, has maintained his innocence.

Lundy is still behind bars on remand waiting to be sentenced on September 28.