The prosecution rests in week six after key witness fails to show
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 trial resumed with testimony from a phone expert who told the court that calls were made from three mobile phones to Crawle on the day of the killings.
Davis Bristo, forensic engineer of 28 years, said he created a scheduled call record at the request of the London Metropolitan police, to pinpoint the time and locations of calls.
Using a Powerpoint presentation, Bistro testified that the calls were made by Digicel handsets, which he tagged using colour codes:
. green phone 354-3357 was used by a sergeant Ballen who was with Corporal Ramsay when a gun was collected at 15B Homestead Road, East Kingston which Reneto Adams was later said to have planted at the death scene;
. pink phone 367-1966 as used by witness Michael Murray; and
. blue phone 429-7349, whose user was not identified in court.
Bistro testified that calls were made in Kingston, Spanish Town, Chapelton and Crawle but he was unable to pinpoint the exact location of the calls, only their general position.
Wednesday:
The trial resumes after a day’s break, with a new blow to the prosecution. Key witness Danhai Williams again fails to show and Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe denies a prosecution request for his statements given before the trial to be admitted into evidence.
The objection to having his statement admitted was raised by Jacqueline Samuels-Brown who appears for Adams in the Crawle case, but also appeared for Williams in October 2003 when the businessman was arraigned on fraud charges.
Williams has also failed to keep his twice-weekly appointments with the Rollington Town police, where he is to report as a condition of his bail in the fraud case. An arrest warrant has been issued for his detention.
Thursday:
Williams remains incognito and the prosecution wraps up its case. Defence lawyers begin immediately to file no case submissions in the absence of the jury.
Some 43 witnesses testified for the crown during the six weeks.
Friday:
Defence lawyers continued their submissions. Wolfe to hand down his ruling before 2:00 pm before jurors are called back into the stands.