News September 14 2025

15% of witnesses missing in Ruel Reid trial

Updated December 9 2025 3 min read

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  • Ruel Reid Ruel Reid
  • Fritz Pinnock Fritz Pinnock

Approximately 15 per cent of witnesses in the multimillion-dollar fraud case involving former Education Minister and Senator Ruel Reid cannot be located, but the trial will commence in three weeks as scheduled, prosecutors have revealed. Prosecutors disclosed on Friday that they intend to rely on 97 witnesses to prove their case, and acknowledged that delays in the six-year-old case have had “a toxic effect” on their availability, but they have already made contact with over 80 per cent of their witnesses.

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