A charge of murder was this morning dropped against Roger Lightbourne Sr.

Senior Crown counsel Paula Tyndale told Magistrates’ Court the prosecution no longer considered it has valid evidence to support the charge that Mr. Lightbourne murdered homeless St. David’s resident Maxwell Brangman.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner discontinued the case against Mr. Lightbourne and released the 41-year-old, of Tommy Fox Road, St. David’s.

Mr. Lightbourne was charged on October 1 and remained in custody until last Thursday, when he was released on bail by Puisne Justice Carlisle Greaves at a Supreme Court hearing.

A second man, Darronte Dill, 18, of Fenton’s Drive, Pembroke, is charged with murdering both Mr. Brangman and his friend Freddie Gilbert.

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