FORMER Labour and National Insurance Minister Shane Gibson has retained Jamaican attorney Keith Knight, QC to be his lead attorney in his upcoming bribery trial, it was revealed yesterday.

Mr Knight successfully defended Gibson’s fellow Progressive Liberal Party politician Frank Smith in his bribery and extortion trial in the Magistrate’s Court, and is now representing Smith in the Crown’s appeal of that decision.

Edward Fitzgerald, QC, who was the lead attorney, will remain part of GIbson’s legal team.

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