Every one of the 16 people tied to the Qahal Yahweh group has been discharged in the Parish Court, with no convictions recorded on charges that ranged from Education Act breaches to cruelty to children and indecent assault.
Senior Parish Court Judge Mrs. K. Grant Pryce granted a no-case submission put forward by defence counsel Peter Champagnie KC and Samoi Campbell. She found that the evidence presented by the prosecution did not meet the threshold required on any of the counts before the court.
Proceedings in the matter opened in April 2024. They stemmed from a police raid in June 2023 at the group's Norwood premises in St James, where officers had acted on reports of unsanitary conditions and an unlicensed school operating on the property.
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