KINGSTON, Jamaica — A detective sergeant, who was the lead investigator in the killing of a man in May Pen, allegedly by Constable Collis “Chucky” Brown, today testified that a bullet that he had retrieved from the dead man’s body has gone missing.

The officer told the court this morning that he had given the bullet in a package to a police officer for it to be taken to the forensic laboratory shortly after Robert ‘Gutty’ Dawkins was killed in January 10, 2009.

However, he said he later discovered that there was no record of the bullet being submitted at the laboratory after the officer died.

The investigator said he searched multiple times in the office and the drawer belonging to the officer he had given the package, but to no avail.

The police witness also told the court that when an exhibit is being handed over to another officer, the protocol was for the receiving officer to issue a receipt and to give a statement, but neither was done in this instance.

Further to that, the detective sergeant also testified that he did not know the two witnesses who had given statement in the case and had never heard their names before today nor had he seen any of the statements given by the two witnesses.

Meanwhile, head of the May Pen Police Division Vendolyn Cameron-Powell, who had been subpoenaed, this morning told the court that there was no entry in the station diary of the main witness giving a statement to the police.

The prosecution in the case was surprised about a statement that was given by the witness to police following Dawkins death.

Hence the parish commander had been summoned to provide station diaries between January 10 and 31.

Tanesha Mundle