A po­lice con­sta­ble has been charged in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing death of mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer Ja­mal Charles, which oc­curred in a guard booth at the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

Po­lice said PC An­ton Philip was charged with manslaugh­ter and is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court to­day. His charge came hours be­fore Charles was laid to rest.

Charles was shot dead around 3.25 pm last Thurs­day while on sen­try du­ty. Charles, the fa­ther of a five-year-old girl, was shot in the neck and died at the scene. An au­top­sy con­clud­ed he died from shock and haem­or­rhage con­sis­tent with a gun­shot wound to the head and face.