A United States-based St. Vincent and the Grenadines national has been freed of charges that he made threats to murder Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves.

Senior prosecutor Adolphus Delplesche said the prosecution had withdrawn the charges against Paul Scrubb because of a lack of evidence.

Scrubb who was arrested at the ET Joshua Airport in July 2016, as he was about to return to the United States after a five-week vacation here, had been charged with making threats to murder Prime Minister Gonsalves and members of his family and making seditious utterances.

“We couldn’t sustain the charges,” Delplesche told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) after he had earlier informed Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne-Matthias that the prosecution was not proceeding against the accused.

The prosecution had alleged that Scrubb, a calypsonian, who uses the stage name “I-Madd”, made the utterances between December 9 and 31, 2015.

Scrubb was not required to plead when he appeared in court last July and was granted bail but barred from leaving the country.

The prosecution had then asked for a three-month adjournment but was still not ready to proceed when the case was called on October 31.

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