McLEAN MURDER TRIAL: Prosecutor tells jurors to reject attempts by defence to distract them
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn today asserted that the four children and two women allegedly killed by St Thomas businessman Michael McLean were like lambs to the slaughter.
Llewellyn, the lead prosecutor in McLean's six-count murder trial said that five of the victims "met their deaths with a clean cut to the neck".
"Why did these six people had to die? Was it because they had to be a blood sacrifice?" she questioned.
Llewellyn was making her closing arguments to the seven-member jury in the trial now under way in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston.
She said all six victims are crying out for justice. "These four children and two women did not deserve this," Llewellyn insisted.
Llewellyn told the jurors that McLean's attorney Carlton Colman tried to distract them in his closing argument by citing "little pieces" of the evidence presented in the trial.
"But the prosecution is saying you have to look at the totality of the evidence, " she cautioned.
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