Screams of "murderer" were shouted at Quincy Stanley (Jimbo) Brangman last night after he was cleared of stabbing Tekle Zion Mallory to death at the Ice Queen in Paget.

As the 24-year-old father was led from the emotion-charged court after being found not guilty of the slaying of Mr. Mallory, a group of the victim's friends screamed and bellowed as he was led into a prison van.

But relatives of Mr. Brangman last night said there were no winners in the outcome, adding that there were still many unanswered questions in the failed prosecution.

Mr. Mallory's mother, Zeble` Mallory, sobbed after the eight-woman, four-man jury returned their verdict of not guilty after about four hours of deliberation.

Afterwards Mr. Mallory's family said they were too upset to speak. Both of the men who were accused of the 22-year-old's murder have now been acquitted.

However, 24-year-old Brangman, of Cook's Hill Road, Sandy's, was found guilty of wounding Mr. Mallory's friend, Lemuel Weeks, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, during the brawl outside the take-away restaurant in the early hours of July 21, 2001.

And he was also found guilty of being in possession of an offensive weapon - a knife - on the same date. He is expected to be sentenced today.

As Brangman was led from Supreme Court one, a group of young women shouted abuse. One screamed: "You will have to live with it - day and night. I hope it eats you alive. Sick B******."

The jury told the court they had reached unanimous verdicts on each of the three counts; Not guilty to murder, but guilty to wounding and possession of the knife.

However, after the jury had left the building and gone home, a Police officer approached the bench, during mitigation, and told Assistant Justice Archibald Warner that the verdicts had not been unanimous.

He said although the verdicts remained the same, the jury had voted ten to two in favour of not guilty to murder, and nine votes to three in favour of guilty to the other two counts.

As a result, the sentencing was halted, and the jury is to be brought back to court this morning to be polled on their verdicts.

Then, sentencing will begin.

Brangman was at first jointly accused of murdering Mr. Mallory, along with his cousin Everett Jahni Bean, in the car park of Ice Queen in the early hours.

The prosecution had claimed that Bean, 20, of Jones' Village, Warwick, had hold of Mr. Mallory while Brangman stabbed him in the abdomen, causing massive internal injuries and loss of blood. The victim died soon afterwards.

However, on Monday this week, Bean was acquitted after Assistance Justice Warner deemed there to be insufficient evidence against him. The defence had claimed that Bean was merely trying to pull Mr. Mallory away from the fight.

As a result, Brangman stood accused of the murder alone.

Yesterday, after the verdicts were announced, prosecutor Vinette Graham-Allen asked the judge to hand down the maximum sentence possible to Brangman - ten years for wounding with intent, and two years for possession of the knife.

And she asked that the sentences be consecutive and in addition to a current three-and-a-half-year sentence he is serving for grievous bodily harm with intent.

The prosecutor told the court Brangman had a number of previous convictions, four of them related to violence and in being possession of an offensive weapon, a knife.

In November 2001, while he was on remand for the Ice Queen murder and assault, Brangman was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for unlawfully wounding fisherman Howard Tucker.

The court heard how, in that incident, he had stabbed Mr. Tucker in the eye with a key.

"It's our submission that the accused can be described from his antecedence history as a man who has a propensity for violence," said Ms Graham-Allen.

But in mitigation, Brangman's defence barrister, Peter Thornton QC, asked Assistant Justice Warner to consider other factors.

He said: "He is still at a youthful age, being 24 years-of-age, and he is the father of a young child. Secondly, in relation to count two (wounding), in our submission there was a substantial degree of provocation - in the unlawful assault which was inflicted upon him by Lemuel Weeks...who shoved the glass bottle in the face of Quincy Brangman, and led him to do what he might otherwise have done that night.

"It was a single blow; It was not life-threatening, and who ever started the fight between them, Lemuel Weeks was prepared to fight and use extreme violence during the time which came before the injury was caused by the defendant." And Mr. Thornton QC said the two sentences for wounding and possession of the knife should be imposed concurrently, as he said the stabbing of Lemuel Weeks could not have occurred if Brangman had not had the knife. The court had heard throughout the nine-day trial how a fight had broken out between Brangman and Mr. Weeks in the car park of Ice Queen, and Mr. Mallory had stood on a wall and shouted to people to stop fighting.

The court had heard how Brangman had stabbed Mr. Weeks in his back, behind his arm, after Mr. Weeks had smashed a bottle in his face. Witnesses said the area was dark at the time, and there was much confusion as a crowd of about 100-plus moved and followed the fights.

One witness said at least six people were fighting at one stage, and Mr. Mallory, from Somerset, had got between two men to try and break it up. It was then that Mr. Bean is said to have pulled Mr. Mallory away, and held him in a full nelson, with his arms wrapped around the victim's upper body.

Mr. Mallory was stabbed three times, twice in the stomach and once in the armpit.

He was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where doctors attempted to revive him, but failed.

Sentencing will be held this morning at 9.30 a.m..