KINGSTON, Jamaica — The prosecution in the so-called ‘death squad’ murder trial this morning opened its case with allegations that on September 5, 2011, the three accused police officers took a man into his home and killed him after he was identified.

It is alleged that the police had gone in search of illegal firearms.

The three Clarendon officers — Detective Corporal Kevin Adams, District Constable Howard Brown and Constable Carl Bucknor — are charged with the murder of Andrew Bisson at his home in Cornpeice district in the parish.

Lead prosecutor Caroline Hay, in her opening address, told the jury in the Home Circuit Court that the allegations are that about 4:30 pm on the day in question, Bisson was in the company of others on a property in the district when the three defendants and other police officers arrived there.

The court heard that the police rounded up the group, including Bisson, and ordered them to go inside a house.

Further reports are that Bisson, after identifying himself, was carried into his one-room board house on the property and shot dead.

“We don’t necessarily have a motive but you may hear that they were looking for guns and that they had asked questions about the guns,” Hay said.

The lead prosecutor however told the court there are no eyewitness in the matter.

As a result, she told the jurors that they might find that the case is a situation in which they will have to use common sense and draw reasonable inferences from the evidence presented.

Tanesha Mundle