A prosecution witness at the trial of six policemen charged with the murder of four people at Crawle, Clarendon, denied in the Home Circuit Court yesterday that he told police that Bashington “Chen Chen” Douglas, who was wanted by the police, was at the house in Crawle on May 7, 2003, when police shot and killed four people in an alleged shoot-out there.

Kevan Miller, 19, testified that at about 4:30 pm on May 7, 2003, he saw three policemen with rifles in hand at the gate of Angella Richards (one of the deceased), shooting at a man whose first name he gave as Adrian, alias “Pucksie”.

Miller, a confessed illiterate, told the court that he left and went back home, but returned to Richards’ home where he saw four men known as Bulpie, Regan, Matthew and Renegade. He said he made a fire and went to a shop to buy pigtail which Richards began to cook.

He told the 12-man jury that he picked oranges for Matthew, then went to the shop to buy crackers and ‘Craven A’ cigarettes. On his return, he saw a blue and white bus parked at the gate and “a pure gunshot a bus”.

Miller said he saw Pucksie running in a chocolate field beside the house because the police were shooting at him. “Me run because de police a bus shot at me and I run over my friend Bobby yard. I heard the shots coming from Angie’s yard same way. The gunshots stop for a time and start back for a time and done dey so.”

The witness testified that Pucksie had nothing in his hands when the police were firing at him, neither did he see anyone fire at the police, nor did he see anybody at the house with any gun before the police came.

He, however, testified seeing three policemen with rifles in their hands.

The Crown showed the witness pictures of the home with windows shattered by gunshots, but he replied that the windows “never mash up before the police start shoot. The windows never stay so.” Neither was a barrel and basket seen on the verandah in photos, there before the arrival of the police.

The Crown is alleging that the six policemen murdered Lewina Thompson, Angella Richards, Kirk Gordon and Matthew James at a house in Crawle.

The police officers, of the disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), charged with the capital offence are: Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams (former head of the CMU), Sergeant Roderick Collier, Corporal Leford Gordon, and constables Partick Coke, Devon Bernard and Shane Lyons – who are represented by a battery of eleven attorneys led by K Churchill Neita QC and Jacqueline Samuels-Brown.

The other witness who testified yesterday was government forensic consultant pathologist Dr Kabidyeala Parsed.

The trial continues today.