CHIEF Justice Lensley Wolfe will Monday rule on a no-case submission by defence lawyers who yesterday wrapped up their deliberations into the murder trial of six policemen charged with the May 7, 2003 deaths of four people at Crawle in Claredon.

The submissions by the defence were heard in the absence of the 12-member jury before Justice Wolfe in the Kingston Home Circuit Court.

Wolfe is expected to hand down his decision on the no-case submissions Monday before the jury return at 2:00 pm.

Wolfe’s decision will determine whether Senior

Superintendent Reneto Adams and five other policemen from the disbanded Crime Management Unit have a case to answer.

The other cops on murder trial are Sergeant Roderick Collier, Corporal Lenford Gordon, and constables Patrick Coke, Devon Bernard and Shane Lyons.

A battery of 11 lawyers, led by Churchill Neita QC and Jacqueline Samuels-Brown are representing the six accused cops before the court.

The high-powered defence team is matched by an equally high-powered representing the Crown.

The prosecution team of five is led by DPP Kent Pantry and British Virgin Islands DPP Terrence Williams.

During the trial, the prosecution failed in its bid to have the statements of the accused cops admitted into evidence.

Williams submitted that statements which were given to retired assistant commissioner of police Osbourne Dyer by the defence lawyers could be admitted into evidence because the accused had waived their rights in allowing the documents to be given to a third party.

But Wolfe turned down the application, saying he would have to be satisfied that the accused waived their rights in submitting the statements to the police for them to be used as evidence. He charged that any lawyer who did that would be acting inappropriately.

Constable Donovan Thompson, an intelligence officer in the Special Anti-Crime Task Force (SACTF) testified that while he was searching a man in the house at Crawle, a man was shot dead. Although he did not name the victim or say who had fired the shot. But his testimony implied that the fatal bullet came from the gun or guns of members of the Crime Management Unit, who had gone to the small Clarendon village to arrest Bashington “Chen Chen” Douglas.

In another development, an 11 year-old girl, who was eight at the time of the incident, related how she was in the death house and had hidden under a bed with Angella Richards, one of the victims, when the police came. She testified that she was taken out into the yard by a policeman who had choked Richards so that she would let go the child.

Thompson said he was standing under a mango tree in the yard when Adams brought him an apparently panicked little girl. He said Adams went back inside the house and Thompson said he heard gunshots. He said he told the child to run to her home and do not stop.

During the third week of the trial Constable Tyrone Brown, who was also a member of the Crime management Unit, and who is abroad in the Witness Protection Programme, testified that he saw Adams plant a gun at the crime scene.

Brown said he was among four policemen who drove to an address along Windward Road, Kingston where Sergeant Ballen and Corporal Tingling collected a gun from an office at Homestead Road, and that Tingling put the gun in a yellow bag.

He further testified that Tingling fired the gun and collected the cartridges casings at two points on their journey to Crawle, and subsequently handed the firearm and shells to Adams. Adams, he testified, placed the gun beside one of the dead men, and threw the spent shells on the floor.