Appeal court orders retrial of Lusignan massacre accused

The Court of Appeal has ordered that Mark Royden Williams and James Anthony Hyles be retried for the murders of the 11 persons killed in the 2008 Lusignan massacre.

In making the decision, the Appeal Court found that there were some irregularities at the trial and the cumulative effect rendered the not guilty verdicts in their favour unsafe and unsatisfactory.

The ruling was delivered at a hearing yesterday morning by acting Chief Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards,