KINGSTON, Jamaica — A former gangster this morning testified that he and members of the Uchence Wilson gang carried out a robbery at his female relative’s home in St Ann, where they stole a large sum of US dollars and items such as bath soaps and body sprays.

The Crown witness, a former member of the gang who is giving evidence via video link in the Home Circuit Court, said he received $40, 000 out of the money.

“Everybody get a little a everyting,” the witness said in relation to the men who were allegedly involved including Wilson, Fitzroy Scott, Stephenson Bennett and Michael Lamont.

However, the witness told the court that he did not want them to rob his relative and told his colleagues that he did not think that she has any money as she was not working when enquires was made.

According to him, he had a good relationship with her and had lived with her for some time.

But he said, Scott told him: “You feel wi ago do you [relative] something, no man wi naa do har nothing, we just a go dung deh go tek the money and ting.”

During the robbery the witness said he stayed outside of the house while the men went inside and could hear his relative’s voice but could not hear clearly what she was saying.

He said he also looked through a window and saw one of the men searching a closet before he heard a gunshot in the living room and ran in bushes where he was joined by the others.

The witness last week testified that that the gang had also robbed his male relative in the same parish.

According to him, he also had a good relationship with that relative.

The 28-year-old Wilson and 23 alleged gangsters, including four women and a police officer, are set for a three-month trial. They will answer to various charges, including breaches of the Criminal Justice Suppression of Criminal Organisations Act (Anti-Gang Legislation), being part of a criminal organisation, illegal possession of firearm, as well as facilitating serious offence by a criminal organisation.

Tanesha Mundle