One number initiated all calls, former Digicel employee tells Maitland murder trial
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The prosecution in the murder trial of constable Noel Maitland on Tuesday superimposed a forensic analyst, who was in the middle of cross-examination when the court adjourned on Monday, with a former court process officer as a witness.
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The former court process officer, who was employed to Digicel in July 2022, took the witness stand in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston to outline the steps he took to locate telephone records connected to the matter. These calls were placed in July 2022.
According to him, a request was made by the police for Digicel to provide call data records on a series of telephone numbers. Based on his observations, one specific telephone number generated all the calls to the other numbers. He did not get to a point where he attributed the telephone number to Maitland or anyone else.
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 and entrepreneur girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson.
Donaldson was last seen at the Chelsea Manor Apartment complex in St Andrew where Maitland lived. She was reported missing on July 13, 2022.
“The information requested was subscriber information for customers and call data records. Upon receiving the request, I checked the dates, the duration they were requesting and what was being requested. Once that was successful, I then moved to the information requested. The information requested was for several mobile numbers. To do extraction of data, I used a computer that I had access to at the time while working at Digicel. The computer was in good working order,” he told the court.
He further explained that he copied search results to two compact disks.
“Disk one was used as the exhibit sealed copy and disk 2 was used as the working disk,” he said.
The former Digicel employee is expected to take the stand on Wednesday. Depending on how quickly he completes giving his evidence, the forensic analyst could return to the stand that same day to face more questions from Maitland’s defence team during cross-examination.
