The murder trial of six policemen has been put on a one-week break to allow for time to gather more witnesses.

Thus far, two witnesses have completed their testimony in the Home Circuit Court.

The witness who completed his testimony on Friday is the first responding detective at the scene following the shooting death of three men at the hands of the police on Acadia Drive in St Andrew in 2013.

The deceased are Matthew Lee, Mark Allen, and Ucliffe Dyer.

On trial for murder in relation to their deaths are Sergeant Simroy Mott, Corporal Donovan Fullerton and constables Andrew Smith, Sheldon Richards, Orandy Rose and Richard Lynch. Corporal Fullerton is also charged with making a false statement to the Independent Commission of Investigations.

It is alleged that during a spot check being conducted by the police on January 12, 2013 a Mitsubishi Outlander motor vehicle was signalled to stop. It is further alleged that the driver of the motor vehicle was initially reluctant to comply. The cops claimed that four men eventually alighted from the motor vehicle and challenged them in a gun battle during which three of the men were shot dead. The fourth man was said to have escaped.

Two firearms along with ammunition were allegedly seized.

Agriculture Minister Floyd Green, who was the first witness, told the seven-member jury that he was in his bedroom when he heard an explosion which prompted him to run to the window. He said that when he looked down from the multi-storey apartment, he saw the police carrying out certain activities on the ground. Among other things, he recalled seeing a policeman placing two firearms in a champagne-coloured police service vehicle that was driven to the scene by a deputy superintendent.

The detective confirmed to the seven-member jury that he was the person placing the firearms in the motor vehicle after he was handed them by one of the policemen involved in the shooting.

Before the matter was adjourned on Friday, the detective was released as a witness. However, it was indicated that there is a possibility he could be recalled to give further evidence if a station diary in which he made entries about the case is found.

The detective told the court on Monday that he made jottings in a notebook about the case and about what he found and observed at the scene. He told the jury that when he went back to Constant Spring Police Station where he was assigned, he used his notebook to help him make the entries in the station diary. When asked by prosecutor Kathy-Ann Pyke if he would be able to locate this notebook, the detective did not hesitate to say he would not be able to find it. He also could not give an account as to the whereabouts of the station diary.

During the detective’s testimony, he said that at the time of the incident he was aware that Ucliffe Dyer was reporting to the police on a gun-related charge and was a known don in Grants Pen, St Andrew.

The witness said he did not know Matthew Lee.

He told the court that he did not know whether the six policemen were on a special assignment when the incident occurred.

He agreed that it was customary for the police to have spot checks in Acadia and other areas surrounding Grants Pen.

Defence attorney Hugh Wildman suggested to the witness that Grants Pen was “notorious for having a lot of gunmen”, and the detective accepted the suggestion.