"We thought it was an open and shut case. I literally had no energy left to hold myself up. "The last bit of strength I had mustered up to enable me to come to the courtroom, to face them, was knocked out. I started shaking and collapsed to the floor, crying. "It was like a physical blow," Andrea said yesterday. Mrs Gallagher broke down and wept while her husband shouted at the three defendants and had to be ushered from the building. The couple, from Orpington, Kent, screamed in horror as the judge brought the proceedings to an end. He ruled there was insufficient evidence of negligence, even though the boat had been unlicensed, had no insurance and Bain had traces of marijuana in his blood – all clear breaches of Bahamian law. Three-quarters of the way through a two-week manslaughter trial against the boat's driver James Bain and its owners Clifford Nottage and Evangeless Williamson, Supreme Court Judge Elliot Lockhart abruptly dismissed the case against them. Heartbroken: After the judge dismissed the case Paul and Andrea Gallagher screamed in horror after a six year battle for justice for their son
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