A defence witness testified Friday that he drafted the terms and conditions under which Superintendent Harry ‘Bungles’ Daley was to be repaid for the $250,000 he had loan to his friend, Leonard Miller.

Miller is the uncle of businessman and complainant Tafari Clarke, who has accused Daley of collecting protection money from him over several months, starting in April 2007.

On Friday, the witness, William Morgan, who is a justice of the peace and teacher, testified at Daley’s corruption trial before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court to crafting the terms and conditions when Daley and Miller came to his house in October 2003.

Morgan said that Miller, at that time, presented him with a receipt, stating that he had borrowed $250,000 from Daley which was to be paid back “on demand”.

The witness said that after scrutinising the receipt, he drafted the terms and conditions under which the loan was to be repaid and that both Miller and Daley signed to it. Morgan said he, too, signed as a witness and stamped it with his justice of the peace seal.

Morgan outlined that repayment of the loan was to commence at the end of January 2004 with an initial sum of $20,000 and monthly instalments of $10,000 thereafter, until the debt was cleared.

Morgan further stated that money for the loan was to be made from Miller’s block factory and the Bungos Plaza in Ewarton, St Catherine, also owned by Miller before his death in 2003, in accordance with the agreement.

Daley had earlier given evidence that he had loan the money to Miller in order for him to expand his block-making factory in St Catherine.

Daley was arrested along Arnold Road in Kingston on July 31, 2008 during a sting operation in which he took $15,000 in marked bills from Clarke at the Kingston Mall. The operation culminated several months of covert investigations in which Daley was recorded taking money from Clarke.

Clarke had told the police that Daley had been collecting money from him in return for protection from a man named Kerry (Terry) who wanted extortion money from the plaza.

Daley is, however, contending that he was merely collecting on the loan to Miller.

Trial resumes on November 2 and will run to the 13th, during which the defence is expected to call four other witnesses.

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