CHIEF Justice Lensley Wolfe told the court yesterday that the murder trial of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams and five members of the disbanded Crime Management Unit for the death of four people, including two women in Crawle, Clarendon must be completed by the end of the Michaelmas term on December 16.

Justice Wolfe urged all the relevant parties to attend court next week and told members of the bar to organise themselves or face sanctions.

In a stern warning Wolfe told Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Terrence Williams, “Next week we are going to work to the end of the term… and we are working towards that. Next week everybody must put their house in order or the guillotine will apply,” the chief justice told Terrence Williams, who is marshalling evidence on behalf of the crown.

The judge’s concern were raised after Williams advised that crown witnesses Sergeant Que Facey and Constable Blair slated to testify were sick and could not attend. The witnesses, he said, will be ready on Monday.

After digitising technician Tedmar Dixon completed his testimony at 11:20 am, Williams advised the court he had no other witness to call.

“Next week everybody must put their house in order or the guillotine will apply,” Wolfe told both prosecution and defence lawyers at yesterday’s session.

Five weeks ago, when the trial began, the Crown estimated a six-week duration.

The Crown said it would not be calling eight of the 46 prosecution witnesses which include two policemen.

Lead defence attorney Churchill Neita QC applied to have the witnesses not called by the crown be put up for cross examination by the defence. But in kicking out the application, Wolfe explained that the law was clear that the crown was not obliged to call every witness listed on the back of the indictment. Therefore, he could not force the DPP to call witnesses but promised that the DPP would make them available.

Earlier in the proceedings, Wolfe expressed dissatisfaction that the prosecution had called Dixon to testify, referring to his evidence as a waste of time.

Dixon told the court that on May 27, 2005, he was requested by police to prepare maps of Jamaica and a KSAC road map. He said five maps were prepared and put on a disc with five metric edition. The maps depicted Mandeville and surrounding areas, upper areas of St Catherine including Linstead and Spanish Town and Clarendon to include Chapleton and May Pen.

But Wolfe was apparently confused by the evidence.

“I am not impressed. I don’t know what the maps are all about. I can see map of certain areas of routes to Clarendon.

But.map of Jamaica.. I don’t know what this is all about. I can’t see the relevance of the map of Jamaica about an incident that happened in Crawle, Clarendon,” Wolfe said.

Defence attorneys supported the position of the chief justice. “It is not relevant.,” said Valerie Neita-Robertson. “It is a waste of time. I would wish to get on to more substantial matters,” not withstanding, the maps were admitted as exhibit 66,” said Neita-Robertson.

Meanwhile, acting deputy commissioner of police Linval Bailey, who was in charge of the Special Anti Crime Task Force (SACTF) in 1999, testified that he had issued a Browning 9mm firearm, bearing serial number 245AZ5191A, to Constable Patrick Coke – one of the five policemen charged along with Adams with the May 2003 deaths of the four Crawle residents.