Acquittals bring cheers
There was clapping and cheering by relatives andfriends in the back of the High Court yesterday when a jury found. Warren Bruce Flutey. aged 20, unemployed, and- Darryl / Robert Fraser, aged 16, a painter, not guilty on a charge of burglary yesterday.
Mr Justice Cook discharged the youths. They . had pleaded not guilty to a charge of burglary of the. home of Caroline Jane Evelyn Baker at 290 Lake Terrace Road- on the night before she was to be buried.
Messrs N. W. Williamson and M. C. Carruthers appeared for the Crown, Mr S. C. Barker for Flutey and Mr E. T. Higgins for Fraser. The defence called no evidence.
The jury took four hours and a half to reach its verdict.
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Press, 24 June 1981, Page 4
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