The Supreme Court has ruled that police personnel acted lawfully in self-defence during an armed confrontation that left 18-year-old Jerome Lee dead on Ramsay Road, St Andrew, in August 2004, dismissing a civil claim against the State. “The court is satisfied that the officers used the degree of force they honestly and reasonably believed was necessary to repel an armed attack. They were acting in the execution of their duty under Section 13 of the Constabulary Force Act,” Justice Sonya Wint-Blair said in her judgment handed down last Thursday. Read more