A charge of harboring a criminal, in this case Edwin "Drive" Flowers , was dismissed from a common-law couple, 23 year old Stephen Flowers and 24 year old Kayla Sutherland, yesterday in the Magistrate's Court. The charge was dismissed after the couple's attorney, Dickie Bradley, made a no case submission and it was upheld by magistrate Albert Hoare.
Bradley's submission was that for the charge to be proven there must be evidence that the defendants knew they were harboring a criminal and there was no evidence that his clients knew that Drive was wanted by the police.
The evidence of a police officer, a member of the gang Suppression Unit, was that on January 5, 2011, they went to the couple's residence on Electric Avenue and saw Drive and the defendants watching television. Drive was told that there was a warrant for his arrest. The police took Drive and the defendants into custody.
Drive had been freed of a charge of conspiracy to commit murder when it was dismissed at a preliminary inquiry. But on December 17, 2010, a warrant was issued for his arrest - he was caught with the couple three weeks later.
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