Three men charged with murder were acquitted after a High Court judge found the State’s key witness unreliable and the prosecution’s case unsafe.

Michael Stephens, also known as Michael Carter, Neil Bowen, and Ferrence Perry, were on trial before Justice Trevor Jones in a judge-only trial for the murder of Glennon Holder of Never Dirty, Morvant. Holder was killed on the morning of December 26, 2009, along Laventille Extension Road near the Never Dirty basketball court.

The state alleged that around 5 am, shortly after leaving a party on Chaconia Avenue, Coconut Drive, Morvant, Holder was walking along a track near the basketball court when he was accosted, shot and killed.