GLEN Andrade, the former director of public prosecutions, broke down in tears yesterday when he took the witness stand at the Home Circuit Court to give evidence against Paul Gooden, the man accused of killing his daughter Ingrid Andrade-Gooden.

At one stage the trial judge, Justice Marva McIntosh, halted the proceedings to allow the retired jurist to regain his composure.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Kent Pantry, who is marshalling the evidence, in outlining the case to the 12-man jury, said he will offer circumstantial evidence which is considered to be the best evidence as it does not lie, noting that the evidence against Gooden was based on jealousy, obsession and rejection.

Allegations are that between November 6 and 8, 2003, Gooden killed his wife Ingrid, 36, a former National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) manager, by smothering and strangling her and dumping her body in mangroves along the Palisadoes Road in Kingston.

Pantry told the jury that Andrade-Gooden was last seen alive up to 9:00 pm on November 6. Her sister Sharon, he said, telephoned from Miami, and Paul answered the phone and told her they were about to have spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. However, after dinner she was never seen alive again until the body was found in the Palisadoes mangroves with its face mutilated, eyes missing, had animal bites as well as human teeth marks.

The DPP told the jury to consider the evidence at the post-mortem which was very important because when she was discovered there was semi-digested food consisting of spaghetti and meatballs in her stomach. He said in October 2003 Gooden and his wife had an altercation at her parents’ home, when she took off her wedding ring, flushed it in the toilet bowl and said the marriage was over. Two days later Gooden complained to her father that Ingrid would not allow him to sleep in the bedroom, he had to sleep with the children. “It is jealousy, obsession and rejection caused him to kill her. The prosecution has an overwhelming amount of evidence to establish the guilt of the accused,” Pantry told the jury.

The prosecution asked the jury to consider how blood was found on her bed after she reportedly left her apartment alone at 6:00 am. He said blood was found on a piece of coloured wash rag, a wet white mop, white T-shirts of Gooden, a flat sheet with blood, semen and sperm; blood on cream pillow cases, night dress, pink cushion, an S-trap pipe in the kitchen and on the wheel hatch of Gooden’s car.

Pantry said on November 7, Gooden, who was employed to Yummy Bakery went to the Maritime Institute along the Palisadoes Road. He asked the driver and sideman if they did not see ganja planted in the bush. He also asked the sideman to change seating position with him so he can sit on the other side of the van to look at the ‘ganja plant’. Co-incidentally his wife’s body was found at the same spot.

Andrade testified that his daughter and Gooden had two children and lived at his house at 20 Roehampton Drive, Kingston 19, for two years after marriage. He told the court that Gooden was extremely obsessed with Ingrid. He said it annoyed him as he saw it as strange and did not like it.

On October 5, 2003 the couple and their two kids visited him. Her said Ingrid went to the computer room to do an assignment for him. He suddenly heard an outburst of noise in the computer room. Gooden later showed him scratch marks on his mouth, saying Ingrid had done it. An argument developed between Ingrid and Gooden who accused her of carrying on a conversation on the computer.

Andrade described the relationship between Ingrid and her husband as strained. In fact, he testified that during the week before she went missing she felt sick and saw a doctor who had put her on five days leave and recommended that she see a psychiatrist. “I spoke with Ingrid on November 6, asked her to come to my house, she came and left driving her car and that was the last time I saw her alive,” Andrade said as he burst into tears.

Gooden, he said came to his house with laundry the following day to be done, and when he enquired about Ingrid, Gooden said she had left at 6:00 am in the dark, saying she wanted some space. He said she left without combing her daughters’ hair or without preparing them for school. He said during the day he spoke with Gooden and tried to get Ingrid on her cellular phone. He was worried and reported the matter to the police.

On November 7, he saw a news story on CVM Television and called the police. “I called Paul (Gooden) told him I heard something on the news and I was going to the morgue to identify the body of a female found on the Palisadoes Road. “When I went, what I saw I did not want to believe and I concluded the body was my daughter and I fainted,” Andrade said.

Under cross examination from defence lawyer Lord Anthony Gifford, he admitted that Ingrid spent time regularly in the computer room, but denied that Gooden complained of seeing an e-mail message of a sexual nature passing between Ingrid and a Victor Hugo.

He did not know that a man wanted to come to Jamaica to have an intimate relationship with Ingrid. He also admitted that Gooden used the word pervert after seeing Ingrid on the Internet, concluding perhaps that is why Gooden was so annoyed.

The trial continues today.