The truck driver who transported what he described as a large settee from Constable Noel Maitland’s Chelsea Manor apartment to a carwash on Lyndhurst Road in St Andrew in July 2022 completed his testimony on Monday in the murder trial in which the policeman is the defendant.

Maitland is on trial for murder and preventing the lawful burial of a corpse in relation to the July 12, 2022 disappearance of his social media influencer/entrepreneur girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson.

Donaldson was last seen at Chelsea Manor where she reportedly had gone with Maitland.

The truck driver was told on Monday morning that he was free to go and was released as a witness in the case, after Maitland’s attorneys had very few questions for him during cross-examination.

Chadwick Berry, one of the lawyers representing Maitland, asked the witness about the colour of the settee he transported to the carwash and if he had told the police in his statement that it was burgundy.

The witness said that he never told that to the police in his statement. He said he told them that it was either red or brown but couldn’t remember exactly. What he said he knew for sure was that it was a dark colour.

Berry then asked him which one was the truth and the witness said he never told a lie. Berry had no further questions for the witness.

In addition to Berry, Maitland is being represented by Christopher Townsend, Sanjay Smith, Kaysian Kennedy Sherman, and Barbadian King’s Counsel Larry Smith.

After the truck driver left the witness stand on Monday, senior prosecutor Claudette Thompson told presiding judge Leighton Pusey that there were no more available witnesses for the day. She said that contact would be made with other witnesses in the case to alert them that they need to make themselves available for today when the trial is expected to continue.