Travolta extortion trial starts in Bahamas
September 24th, 2009 - 3:08 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Nassau, Sep 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Travolta extortion trial began on Tuesday, but during the first day of testimony in the island chain off the Florida coast, John Travolta did not appear in the courtroom.
The Supreme Court Judge Anita Allen swore in the six-woman, three-man jury for the trail on Monday.
“Contact was made with certain persons to communicate a threat to John Travolta,” Bernard Turner, chief prosecutor in the Bahamas, said in his opening argument.
It may be recalled that John Travolta’s chronically ill, sixteen year old son Jett died in on a vacation in the family’s vacation home in Grand Bahamas Island, on Jan 2 because of a seizure.
The former Bahamas senator Bridgewater and an ambulance driver Lightborne tried to blackmail Travolta to part with the hush money else they would release a document related to the medical treatment of his gravely ill son Jett.
The first trial witness, police inspector Andrew Wells, testified that after 16-year-old Jett was loaded into an ambulance, Lightbourne told him that Travolta wanted his son taken directly to the local airport instead of the hospital. Wells said Travolta signed a release form.
Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston who are in mourning and have kept a low profile since his son’s death, arrived in the Bahamas for the trail. And the high-profile couple is staying in an exclusive gated community west of Nassau.
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