The second witness in the Uchence Wilson trial testified yesterday that a medical doctor in Manchester wanted $250,000 to extract bullets from the body of the alleged gang leader who was shot by the police during a robbery in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine.

The second witness who, like Witness One, is a former member of the gang, testified yesterday via videolink from a remote location, giving details of a number of robberies in which he said he participated.

The witness is being referred to as Witness Two by the Jamaica Observer because of a court order instructing that all witnesses remain anonymous.

During his evidence-in-chief, Witness Two testified that when they were unable to get in touch with doctors in Linstead, St Catherine, who he said would normally tend to them, they contacted a doctor in Mandeville who agreed to do the operation.

He said he drove ahead of the vehicle that carried the injured Wilson.

He said when they arrived in Mandeville, the doctor, during negotiation, told them that what they were requesting was serious and that he could lose his “work”.

Witness Two said Stephenson “Slim” Bennett and Shontal Gordon, who is the mother of Wilson’s child, told the doctor that the price was too high and that they only had $90,000. The witness told the court that the doctor later agreed to the amount. However, he was unable to remove a bullet from Wilson’s back.

According to the witness, the doctor told them that Wilson needed an X-ray to remove the bullet. He said they subsequently returned to Commodore in St Catherine where Wilson and Gordon lived.

He told the court that he did not participate in that robbery, but said “Slim” told him how Wilson was shot. He also said Wilson, otherwise known as Terrence, told him when he recovered from his injury.

“Slim say him deh round a di side of the house and see the police light a come and call Terrence. Him say as him call Terrence the police dem come round and Terrence buss two shots to scare weh the police them, but the police shoot back, so him jump the fence and run ’cause him never know say Terrence get shot,” Witness Two testified.

According to the witness, Bennett told him that it was after he (Bennett) had run into heavy foliage that another man told him that Wilson was shot.

“Him bring him down a him house and call me to take him out of the area,” he continued.

Witness Two also gave Wilson’s account of the shooting.

“Him jump the fence. Him and Slim go over inna di yard after them hold the people dem, the lady in the house. Him coming through the front door, Slim was at the side. Him saw a light come up in the yard look like police so him was trying to leave and same time him phone ring and the police them shoot towards the phone light. Him a try jump the fence. Him say a right there so him get shot, when him a try jump the fence, and the gun drop from him. Him say right there so di bwoy dem shot him ’cause Slim never did a cover the front good,” Witness Two testified during the morning session.

As he continued to outline how a number of robberies unfolded, he gave details of a robbery that took place in St Ann, his role, and how a woman was beaten with a cutter when her spouse refused to tell the alleged gangsters where they could locate the money.

Referring to the theft as the “Clarks Man Robbery”, he said the gangsters stole a ‘Sponge Bob’ bus, cash, accessories and appliance. The witness, who was the driver and the lookout man, said Slim had been the spotter on this occasion.

The court was told that Slim purchased a mattress from the man who delivered it later the said evening.

Witness Two said Slim told him that he drove his motor bike to the store and tailed the man to his home. He said Slim called Terrence and Fitzroy Scott and told them that he was going to rob the man.

By this time, he said Slim called him and instructed him to pick up Tevin “Tev” Khani in Commodore and meet Machel Goulbourne, Scott, Michael “Judge” Lamont, Devin Taylor and witness number one on the highway in Linstead.

Witness Two, while noting that he drove his personal car to St Ann, said Taylor drove a silver Corolla on that day. He said when they arrived in Bamboo, St Ann Scott came to the window of his car and instructed him to pick up Slim in the town and follow the man.

After waiting for close to an hour he said at one point Scott, who he was communicating with, told him to “gwaan easy” because the store was still open.

Shortly after, he said, Scott called and told him that the man was going to drop off some of his workers and that he should follow him.

He said Scott also gave him a description of the bus that the man used to transport the workers.

“I was there and then I saw the bus pass going through Bamboo town, coming from Brown’s Town side. I called him and told him and he said I must wait until it a pass back and call him,” he continued.

“After a while, him call back and say I must open my eye because him hold the people them and tie them up. Him say dem a load up the bus to leave and him and Machel a go drive. Him a go deh inna di bus, him say (Witness One) and Judge deh inna di bus. Him say Devin a go clear the road, then the bus gwine pass and mi must wait ’cause Slim gwine call me,” he said.

He further testified that he waited for a while before Slim called him and told him that he should pick up Khani and himself. He explained that when he went for the accused men he saw a woman with blood running down her face walking down the hill. He said Slim, who was surprised when he saw the woman, jumped into the car and began cursing.

Witness Two said when he drove off, Slim told him that he should wait for Khani who was also his brother-in-law. However, he did not stop.

The following day he said he met with the gangsters who gave him a fan, a rubber band watch, two wallets and $12,000.

At that time, he said Slim explained to him why he was surprised when he saw the woman walking up the road.

“Them hold the man and him never waan talk weh the money deh, so dem beat up him wife in front of him so him talk weh the money deh. Him say a him lik her wid di cutter why her face did blood up. After that him give them her to tie up and that’s why he was frighten to see her on the road,” the witness told the court.

Twenty-eight-year-old Wilson, and 23 alleged gang members, including four women and a police corporal, are being tried for various offences under the Criminal Justice (Suppression of Criminal Organisations) Act, commonly referred to as the Anti-Gang Legislation, and also for offences under the Firearms Act.

Yesterday all the accused, except Shadday Beckford, were further remanded.

The trial will resume on Monday.