Keith Clarke
By Racquel Porter
The trial date for the three Jamaica Defence Force soldiers charged with the 2010 murder of Keith Clarke, is to be settled on February 21.
When the matter was called up in the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday, Justice Vinnette Graham Allen declared that a trial date will be set at the next hearing.
Prior to Tuesday's adjournment, the defence team representing Corporal Odel Buckley, Lance Corporal Greg Tinglin and Private Arnold Henry requested additional time to take further instructions from their clients.
Their bail was subsequently extended.
The pending trial date comes approximately five years after attorneys for the Jamaica Defence Force surprised prosecutors with certificates of immunity for each of the accused, as jury selection for the murder trial was about to begin.
The certificates were signed by former Minister of National Security Peter Bunting in February 2016, almost six years after Clarke's death and four years after the soldiers were charged with murder.
Mr. Clarke was shot 21 times inside his Kirkland Close home in St. Andrew, on March 27, 2010, during a police-military operation to apprehend then fugitive, drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
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