It made major national headlines and even provoked a riot on Caye Caulker last year when 18 year old Hilberto Sotz was killed while in police custody. Two island cops, 32 year old Hallet king and 43 year old Leonard Nunez were charged for murder.
It was a swift and decisive move by police, which did somewhat allay public outrage - after all, the teenager died from blunt force trauma.
But, today we learned that the charge of murder against two police constables has been reduced to manslaughter. It happened when they appeared today before the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith, and the directive came from the Director of Public Prosecutions.
With that, King and Nunez - who had been on remand since June of 2015 - were both released on Bails of $2,000 each and their case was adjourned until June 16.
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