KINGSTON, Jamaica — The prosecutors in the ‘X6 murder trial’ have made an application to treat their main witness, taxi driver Wayne Wright, as a hostile witness.

Their application was granted by Justice Lloyd Hibbert.

Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor made the application in the Home Circuit Court on Friday on grounds that Wright has shown himself to be “adverse” and “inconsistent”.

The witness today admitted to giving a statement to the police on July 5, 2011, but said some aspects of it were not true.

When pressed, he denied telling the police about people he had known for several years, including the deceased – Khajeel Mais – wo he denied knowing from he was a young boy.

He also denied telling the police that on July 1, he had seen a man he called “Nigga” with a gun and that he had known “Nigga” for eight years and that “Nigga drives a dark X6 motor vehicle.

Additionally, Wright denied giving the police a second statement on July 8, insisting that he  had only given a statement on July 5 and that, at the time, the police did not ask him if everything he had said in the statement was true.

Wright, who testified yesterday that on hearing the gunshot he ducked beneath his steering wheel and drove straight to Avon Place on his way to the Constant Spring Police Station, denied seeing anybody on the night of the incident insisting instead that  he held his head down while shots were being fired.

Businessman Patrick Powell is charged with shooting Mais, he is being tried for murder and shooting with intent.

It is alleged that Mais was travelling in a taxi which collided with a BMW X6 motor vehicle that was being driven by Powell. It is alleged that the driver of the BMW got out and fired at the taxi, hitting the boy.

Tanesha Mundle