The prosecution was on Monday given the go-ahead to recall two witnesses in its ongoing bid to have the statement of a dead witness admitted as evidence in the trial of 25 alleged members of the so-called Tesha Miller faction of the Klansman gang.

Trial judge Justice Dale Palmer, who has been trying the matter sitting alone, however, imposed seven “restrictions” on the Crown which will act as safeguards while further evidence is elicited.

The ruling follows several bouts of legal submissions as the prosecution jousted to have the statement of the dead woman, Shanice Roberts, regarding the February 2020 murder of a man called Noah Smith at Yarico Place in St Andrew, tendered into evidence.