Vybz Kartel attorney takes issue with another police press release......The court has also issued a subpoena for Public Defender Earl Witter to appear in court tomorrow at the request of Tavares-Finson.

HEAD of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Corporate Communications Unit, Deputy Superintendent Steve Brown, was hauled before the High Court yesterday during the Vybz Kartel murder trial after defence attorney Tom Tavares-Finson complained that Brown had not heeded a warning to be careful with the wording of press releases issued by the unit.

BROWN... summoned to the court
yesterday to explain the wording
of a press release issued
on the weekend

Tavares-Finson requested that Justice Lennox Campbell summon Brown to court to explain the wording of a release sent out on Friday, which stated that hoodlums had attempted to firebomb the house of a police sergeant who is a main witness for the prosecution in the case. Tavares-Finson fumed that Justice Campbell had asked a senior policeman last month to inform Brown that the wording of a previous release inferred that the vandals behind the cutting of fibre-optic cables belonging to two telecommunications firms were acting on behalf of individuals involved in a high-profile case.

However, he said the same words were used on the weekend when describing the police sergeant as being "a witness in a high-profile case that is now before the courts". This, the attorney said, was prejudicial against his client and the other accused men. more