Update | Two men in Bog Walk Gorge floodgate case freed due to absent witnesses

The two St Catherine men who were charged in 2022 for forcibly removing the padlock from a floodgate in the Bog Walk Gorge have been freed due to the absence of witnesses in the case.

Forty-year-old bus driver Garth Brown and 52-year-old excavator operator Glenroy Denton were charged with malicious destruction of government property and unauthorised entry into a restricted area.

The matter came up for trial in the St Catherine Parish Court on Tuesday, where it was revealed that the police officer responsible for dealing with video evidence was absent and that the investigating officer was not an eyewitness to the incident.