The two policemen who were each charged with three counts of murder in connection with the controversial shooting deaths of three men in Shrewsbury, Westmoreland, over 13 years ago were acquitted by a jury on Wednesday.

Constables Damane Campbell and Kenroy Hinds, who were assigned to the Westmoreland police, were freed in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston after the judge who presided over the four-week trial upheld no-case submissions by their attorneys and directed that jurors enter verdicts of acquittal.

No-case submissions refer to legal arguments made by defence attorneys during a trial - usually at the end of the prosecution's case - that the evidence presented by prosecutors is insufficient to support a conviction.