(PLTM) - The new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Kim Hollis, QC has taken on her first case and will be prosecuting the high profile trial involving the murder of Paul Prentice. DPP Hollis will be assisted by Senior Crown Counsel, Leslie Ann Faulkner.
Kenyatta 'Yhats' Boynes, 31, of Lower Estate, is charged with the murder and is represented by Attorney-at-Law Patrick Thompson.
Today, Monday, October 10, the nine member jury was selected to sit on the trial before Justice Nicola Byer. However, the trial will commence later in the week due to pre-trial hearings in the absence of the jury.
Prosecution is expected to call some 20 witnesses.
Prentice,22, died from a single bullet which pierced his heart in a brazen shooting incident on Waterfront Drive in December 2014.
According to court records from the Magistrate's Court, it is alleged that a witness, who was also an alleged target, told police that he saw Boynes firing a gun in the alley on the night of the shooting.
He claimed that the shots were targeting both him (the witness) and Prentice, and they both ran for safety. Subsequently, Prentice collapsed upon reaching the centre of Waterfront Drive, while the witness fled in the direction of Nagico building.
According to the allegations, Boynes fled the scene on foot after discharging several rounds.
Boynes has denied the allegations and has also provided an alibi.
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