Walter Prescod freed of drug importation charges

A jury has acquitted former Goddard Enterprises sailor Walter Oneal Prescod of three drug charges involving 121.4 kilogrammes of cannabis found aboard the company yacht Ecstasy, ending a case that dominated national headlines in 2018.

Prescod and two Goddard’s board members, then-chairman Charles Herbert and director Christopher Rogers, were arrested and charged in connection with the drugs found aboard the yacht in 2018. A year later, the Director of Public Prosecutions dropped the charges against Herbert and Rogers, citing a lack of evidence.

Prescod was charged with possessing the cannabis within Barbados’ territorial waters, importing it and possessing it for the purpose of trafficking on July 23, 2018.