The murder trial of Bryan Roy Welcome continued Tuesday with just 11 jurors after one jury member died in an accident over the weekend.
Details of the accident were not revealed in court.
The jury, which had not sat for the previous two weeks, was also not required to sit on Monday due to the heavy rain and flooding. When they returned to Grand Court Tuesday, Justice Marlene Carter asked them if their fellow juror’s death might affect their ability to concentrate on the case.
”One of your number … had an unfortunate accident on Sunday evening and has now passed. My sympathies to you. It was someone who was part of your group, the jury, and I am very conscious that these things can play on your minds,” Carter told the jurors.
When the jury of nine women and two men responded that they were willing and able to continue, Carter excused them briefly to speak to counsel. They were then called back to be told the case would resume next Tuesday, after the upcoming holiday weekend.
Welcome is accused of driving over and killing his informal business partner during a heated dispute that turned physical.
Welcome, 42, of Bodden Town, faces a single murder charge, which he denies, in relation to the July 2023 killing of Omar Ryan, 34, a Jamaican national who lived in North Side.
Ryan died after being hit by an SUV off of Robert Foster Drive in the vicinity of George Town Yacht Club shortly after 8:20pm on 8 July.
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