A director of the Passport, Immigration, and Citizenship Agency (PICA) told the court on Monday that she could not confirm whether Donna-Lee Donaldson could have left the island via an illegal port of entry, insisting that the entity’s records only reflect legal entries and exits to and from the island.

The director was facing cross-examination from Chadwick Berry, the attorney representing Constable Noel Maitland, who is being tried for murder and preventing the lawful burial of a corpse in the Home Circuit Court, downtown Kingston.

The charges are in relation to the July 12, 2022 disappearance of Donaldson, a 24-year-old social media influencer who was Maitland’s girlfriend.

Donaldson was last seen at the Chelsea Manor apartment complex in St Andrew where Maitland lived. Circumstantial evidence, including blood found inside Maitland’s apartment that matches Donaldson’s, is being used by the prosecution to secure a conviction.

Berry, who is one of five attorneys representing Maitland, asked the witness if the records held by PICA captured illegal entry and departures.

“If you are speaking of use of an unauthorised port, then no,” the witness responded.

Berry then asked whether the records would indicate whether Donaldson left Jamaica on a banana boat.

“Are you suggesting that, Sir?” the witness asked, before explaining that if the banana boat used an illegal port to leave Jamaica, that would not reflect in PICA’s official records.

Berry asked the witness a similar question, but tweaked it to an unregistered aircraft which could have left the island via an illegal port in St Mary.

“No,” the witness responded.

“I am able to speak to her travel events as it relates to an authorised port,” the witness added, emphasising that she could not speak to anything regarding any possible travels using unauthorised ports.

The witness told the court that PICA uses a computerised border management system that logs all arriving and departing passengers, whether via sea or airports.

In relation to the case, the witness explained that she received a number of requests from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to pull travel records for Donaldson. She said that the system reflected Donaldson’s last date of travel as being March 12, 2021.

“We provided a standard cover letter which accompanied the statement and travel records for the subject. The request was in relation to Donna-Lee Sophia Donaldson, date of birth July 10, 1998,” the witness said, indicating that she made note of Donaldson’s passport number among other details.

The director told the court that she also pulled the travel records associated with the name Donna-Lee Sophia White.

Sophia Lugg, Donaldson’s mother, had told the court during her testimony that there was a time when Donaldson used the last name White.

She said that a search was done on the second name, Donna-Lee Sophia White, along with the date of birth July 10, 1998, among other details. The witness said that travel records were ascertained for the second name provided, which showed that that passport was issued to a child who last travelled using that document in 2013.

The trial continues today.