Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A KINGSTON businessman was freed last Thursday of the murder of 31-year-old Raymond Parkes, son of musician Lloyd Parkes.
Klaus Heitman, 34, was freed in the Home Circuit Court of the murder charge.
He was freed after Justice Gloria Smith upheld a no case submission made by defence lawyers Bert Samuels and Andrea Martin.
The judge directed the jury to return a formal verdict of not guilty.
SELF-DEFENCE
Parkes was fatally shot at East King's House Circle, St. Andrew, on the morning of February 26 last year.
After the Crown closed its case, the defence lawyers submitted that the prosecution witnesses had supported the defence raised by Heitman that he shot the deceased in self-defence.
Aaron Byfield, a security officer attached to King Alarm Systems, testified that he answered a call and went to Marley Road on the morning of the incident.
He said when he arrived at East King's House Circle, which is adjacent to Marley Road where Heitman lived, he saw the body of a male on its back.
