The prosecution rests in week six after key witness fails to show
December 11, 2005
On trial for murder: Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams, Sergeant Roderick Collier, Corporal Leford Gordon, Constable Patrick Coke, Constable Devon Bernard, and Constable Shane Lyons.
The victims: Lewina Thompson, Angella Richards, Kirk Gordon, and Matthew James.
The defence lawyers: K Churchill Neita, Jacqueline Samuels-Brown and Christine Hudson; Valerie Neita-Robertson and Gladstone Wilson; Earl Witter and Errol Gentles; Oswest Senior-Smith and Althea McBean; Deborah Martin; and Robert Fletcher.
The prosecutors: DPP Kent Pantry, acting senior deputy DPP David Fraser, acting deputy DPP Donald Bryan, acting crown counsel Chester Crooks, and Terrence Williams, DPP of the British Virgin Islands.
The judge: Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe.
Monday:
The trial resumed with testimony from a phone expert who told the court that calls were made from three mobile phones to Crawle on the day of the killings.
Davis Bristo, forensic engineer of 28 years, said he created a scheduled call record at the request of the London Metropolitan police, to pinpoint the time and locations of calls.
Using a Powerpoint presentation, Bistro testified that the calls were made by Digicel handsets, which he tagged using colour codes:
. green phone 354-3357 was used by a sergeant Ballen who was with Corporal Ramsay when a gun was collected at 15B Homestead Road, East Kingston which Reneto Adams was later said to have planted at the death scene;...
Author: Carl Gilchrist
Source: Jamaica Observer
