A seven-member jury heard evidence on Wednesday that constable Noel Maitland appeared to have moved around a lot in the two days following the disappearance of his girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson.

Donaldson, a 24-year-old social media influencer and entrepreneur, went missing on July 12, 2022. She was last seen at the Chelsea Manor apartment complex in St Andrew where Maitland lived.

Maitland is currently on trial in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston for murder and preventing the lawful burial of a corpse in relation to Donaldson’s disappearance.

A deputy superintendent of police (DSP) attached to the Communication Forensics and Cybercrime Division told the jury that Maitland’s movements were tracked using cell tower information retrieved from a locally operating telecommunications company.

He said that on July 13, which was the day after Donaldson went missing, a phone number attributed to Maitland made a call at 9:49 am. That call was facilitated by the Lyndhurst Road cell site in St Andrew. At 12:30 pm, that same number attributed to Maitland used the Princeville Plaza cell site, also in St Andrew, to communicate on the network.

By 1:08 pm, the number was back within range of the Lyndhurst Road cell site. At 2:14 pm the number was still using the Lyndhurst Road cell site.

Based on the general movement of the mobile number attributed to Maitland, the expert said that on the following day, July 14, 2022, Maitland’s number was picked up by the Dunrobin Avenue cell site in St Andrew. At 3:49 pm the number was using the Lyndhurst Road cell site. At 3:55 pm the number was using a cell site on East Avenue, near downtown Kingston, and at 4:06 pm, the number pinged on the West Parade cell site in downtown Kingston.

On Tuesday, the court heard that Maitland’s phone had picked up on the Tivoli Gardens cell site and other cell sites within the downtown Kingston region.

The DSP told the court that at 1:23 pm on July 12, 2022, a phone number attributed to Donaldson received a message; however, the cell site used to facilitate the sending of that message could not be ascertained. He said that 2:54 pm on the same day was the time of the last communication initiated by Donaldson. The Dumfries Road, St Andrew, cell site was used to facilitate that communication, the DSP said.

He told the court that after 2:54 pm on July 12, 2022 there was no more communication on the number attributed to Donaldson. He theorised that that was because the phone using the number was not turned on.

Under cross-examination by defence attorney Chadwick Berry, the DSP confirmed that a number with a Dallas, United States, area code was in communication with Donaldson’s phone number.

The trial continues today.