The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

PROSECUTORS produced a written directive from the Attorney General’s Office requesting that proceedings be discontinued against a man accused of burglary and attempted rape.

Yesterday’s move by the Crown in the Supreme Court came more than two years after 25-year-old Stephan Oliver was initially arraigned in connection with the crimes alleged to have occurred on June 1 on a Family Island.

Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite presented the nolle prosequi (no prosecution).

While Oliver was discharged, he was informed that the Attorney General’s Office could bring the case against him again at any time in the Supreme Court.

It was claimed that he, on the evening in question, entered the home of a woman with whom he was familiar and tried to have sex with her without her consent.

While a reason was not provided to the court for their course of action, The Tribune has learned that there was little evidence for the prosecution to present a strong case.

Oliver, who was on bail, was represented by Jiaram Mangra.

Senior Justice Stephen Isaacs presided over yesterday’s proceedings.