The trial of Ultra Lounge night club owner Kirk Munroe has ended in a hung jury, after neither an unanimous nor a majority verdict could be reached.
He was charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, after police retrieved a loaded handgun from the nightstand of his bedroom in his George Town home. Munroe has said that he found the gun wrapped in cloth outside his bar while closing up in the early morning hours. When he found the gun he panicked and took it home with him.
“He was so afraid that he did not even sleep at his house that night and several days after,” Amelia Fosuhene, Munroe’s lawyer, told the court. “In fact, when police attended Mr. Munroe’s workplace armed with a search warrant he told officers that he had found the gun and told them where it would be located at his house.”
Under the British judicial system, which forms the basis of Cayman’s judiciary, a hung jury occurs after members of the panel, after a prolonged period of deliberation, are unable to arrive at a verdict of innocence or guilty, whether unanimously or by majority.
Despite the hung jury, Munroe will remain in custody until a new trial can be arranged.
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