Three men accused of a chilling double murder and arson in which two victims were found dead in a bathtub inside a burnt-out house have walked free after the prosecution admitted it could not proceed without its sole eyewitness.

Labourers Malic Saunders, Paul Cort and Omar Brown, otherwise called "Warlord," all of Torrington Park, Kingston 5, were freed in the Home Circuit Court on Thursday after the Crown conceded there was no realistic prospect of securing convictions.

The men had been charged with two counts of murder, arson and illegal possession of a firearm in connection with the deaths of Clifton Grant, otherwise called "Lickle Man," 30, and Romario Raymond, otherwise called "Dada," 21, both of Torrington Park.