EARNEST Davis, the attorney representing Dwayne Pink, one of the co-accused in the murders of Simone Campbell-Collymore and taxi operator Winston Walters, urged a seven-member jury in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston Thursday to return a not guilty verdict in relation to his client as he said there was no credible evidence which placed him on or near the scene of the crime on January 2, 2018.

“I ask that you find Dwayne Pink not guilty on all counts,” Davis told the jury, making reference to the two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to murder that his client is facing.

Pink, along with Omar Collymore, Michael Adams, and Shaquilla Edwards are currently on trial for the double murder. Campbell-Collymore, who was a successful businesswoman, and Walters were gunned down by Wade Blackwood and a Corporate Area community enforcer, “Jim”, who is now deceased.

The businesswoman and taxi driver were pounced upon by the gunmen as they waited for the security guard to open the gate at Campbell-Collymore’s Forest Ridge Apartment complex on Stanley Terrace in Red Hills, St Andrew.

Based on the Crown’s case, Adams was said to have been the contractor in the murder plot to kill Campbell-Collymore.

Blackwood gave evidence in court which painted Omar Collymore, the husband of Campbell-Collymore, as the engineer of the plot to kill his wife. He also told the court that he knew Adams and Pink and that they, along with Collymore, were all involved in the planning of Simone’s murder and took steps to ensure it happened.

Blackwood had pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after spending 35 years behind bars. He also received an eight-year sentence for the gun he used to pump bullets into the two.

Earlier this year, Blackwood accepted an offer from the prosecution to have the 35 years shaved down to 20 years if he gave evidence in the trial against Pink and the other men.

On Thursday, attorney Davis, appealed to the jury to look carefully at two things. He said that call data and cell tower records which featured prominently in the trial did not place Pink anywhere near the scene on the day of the murder. The next thing he pointed out was that Wade Blackwood claimed that Pink was a member of a party that was monitoring the movements of Campbell-Collymore in order to provide Blackwood and Jim with updates. But based on the records presented in court, Davis said Blackwood’s evidence doesn’t add up.

“At 10:32 am up to 11:41 am on January 2, 2018 there was no activity on Mr Pink’s phone. There was nothing else. At 12:35 pm on January 2, Mr Pink’s phone was transmitting from the Tarrant cell tower. About 3:03 pm his phone was transmitting from the Tarrant tower and this was the case up to the time of the murder. There was no activity up to 5:59 pm on January 2. This is the time that Mr Blackwood is putting Dwayne Pink in a car with Michael Adams, but the data is not supporting what he is saying.

“On the same January 2, 2018 at 5:09 pm, he was still using Tarrant and that was the time of the murder. I am going to put this data up now, because, frankly, I am tired of it. Up to 6:25 pm there was no activity from the number attributed to Pink. During cross-examination, I asked Deputy Superintendent Maurice Goode if Dwayne Pink was in the Red Hills area at all during these relevant times. When I asked him, he was so surprised I could ask him such a question. Without hesitating, he said he was not in Red Hills. So you see what is happening to poor Dwayne,” Davis said to the jury.

Davis then focused his attention on the triggerman, Wade Blackwood.

“When a person enters into a plea agreement, it is a contract, and if the defendant does not do what he is contracted to do, the Crown can withdraw the offer that was made and restore his sentence to 35 years,” the lawyer said.

Davis tried to raise a point from a statement that was not in evidence and was met with an objection from prosecutor Andrea Martin-Swaby, who said that wasn’t in evidence and should not be put to the jury. The trial judge, Justice Leighton Pusey, agreed with the prosecution and instructed Davis to move on.

After Davis completed his closing address to the jury, Justice Pusey began his summation. The judge made the first segment of his summation very brief, explaining that most of his summation will take place next week.

“I would love to be able to tell you that this is something that we can deal with very quickly, but we are at a stage where what we do here is very important. While we want to do it quickly, we also want to do it properly because of the time we have taken with attorneys, witnesses, and accused men. It is important that we respect that, in terms of going through as efficiently as possible,” Pusey said.

The trial will resume on Monday.