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 court hears that the gun allegedly found at the crime scene was never tested until the trial.

Forensic expert Dr Geoffrey Rowe of London said he first did tests on November 15, two weeks into the murder hearings.

Rowe had used photos of the crime scene to theorise on the events around the shooting, but his evidence was curtailed by the court, on objections from defence attorney Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, saying he would be testifying to an hypothesis rather than fact.

Chief justice Wolfe orders that 10-year-old Shanice must return to court Tuesday to complete her cross-examination.

Tuesday:

Shanice returns to court and reveals under cross-examination by defence lawyer Diane Martin that two Scotland Yard detectives had attempted to speak with Shanice during a bathroom break during her testimony last week.

She, however, rebuffed their attempts, penning a note to them that she had been instructed by the judge not to.

Another policeman takes the witness stand and testifies that as he searched one of the Crawle house occupants, the man was shot dead and fell on him, even though he had found nothing on him that could threaten their safety.

Constable Donovan Thomas, who wiped tears as he gave evidence, testified that it was Reneto Adams who took Shanice out of the house to him, and that after he heard gunshots, urged her to run home.

Thomas admits that he is under criminal investigation for a shooting and driving a stolen vehicle, but denies accusations by the defence of giving false testimony to have charges dropped.

He also denies being seen in the company of One Order gang members and that Adams had warned him of associations with ‘undesirables’.

Wednesday:

Expert witness testifies that wounds on victims are not consistent with a shoot-out, saying the wounds were inflicted in “a controlled way”.

Forensic patholigist Jack Craine, from the United Kingdom, says two of the victims seemed to have been shot while lying on the floor.

In the scenario painted by the police of events at Crawle, said Craine, the wounds to the bodies should have been randomly dispersed because of bullet fragments, but that all victims sustained two chest wounds, while none showed injury from fragments.

Jamaica’s forensic analyst Marcia Dunbar testifies that gunpowder residue was found on four of the six policemen charged. Leford Gordon’s test was negative, and Adams’ hands were not swabbed for testing.

Dunbar testifies that trace levels of residue was also found on victim Matthew James, but says such levels can be transferred by touching.

Thursday:

Court denies prosecution request to accept police statements on Crawle shootings, made after the incident, saying the accuseds would be required to waive their rights for such statements to be accepted in evidence.

Friday:

Court hears that Adams’ phone was bugged after he refused to speak with police investigators probing the May 7, 2003 Crawle shootings.

Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields, currently on secondment here from Scotland Yard, told the court that he eavesdropped on Adams, after instructing Sergeant Que Facey to speak with Adams about the shootings.

Shields denies promising relocation and money to cops to turn crown witness, but said he told Leford Gordon that he had the option of being a suspect or a witness.

The trial resumes Monday in the Home Circuit Court.