#TurksandCaicos, March 3, 2021 – After 12 years of going to court to fight
against two charges of money laundering, Lisa Hall was finally exonerated when
the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ruled that there was
simply not enough evidence to continue a case against her.
In a press conference attended by Mrs. Hall
and her legal team lead attorney Oliver Smith of Skippings Law, Smith insisted
that enough was enough and if the SIPT trial were to go on, the British
government should fund it.
“We stand with our colleagues. We stand very
strong and very firm with our colleagues. We have, I believe seven defendants
left to go to trial. We believe that enough is enough. We believe that the
country has spent enough funds to lodge this trial. We believe that if the
British government thinks it’s fit to continue with the trial, that they should
assist the funding of this trial. It is not a burden that should be left on
this country alone especially in this time of this pandemic and the result and
negative effects that it has had on the economy, people losing their jobs,
monies could be spent in better ways. To me it’s a waste of resources going
forward,” he said.
According to Smith, the Special Investigation
and Prosecution Trial went on for far too long and consumed 12 years of Mrs
Hall’s life to a point where she saw her daughter complete high school and
complete university while being weighed down by the trial.
“We have these guys who their liberties have
been taken away for the past 10 years. They’ve had to go to court, some of them
are unemployed, some of them are unemployable based on the stench of this case
and whatever point that the British government wants to make and whatever point
the prosecutors and attorneys are wanting to make, we believe that it is
enough. We believe that it has been made and it is time for a reconsideration,”
he continued.
The seven defendants left to go to trial are
Michael Misick, Chalmers Misick, McAllister Hanchell, Jeffrey Hall, Floyd Hall,
Melbourne Wilson and Clayton Green.
The Office of the Director of Public
Prosecutions crafted a new trial after the passing of the trial’s judge and
jury Justice Paul Harrison.
