The third witness in the murder trial of six policemen on Friday denied knowledge that Ucliffe Dyer was a don in Grant’s Pen, St Andrew, and that Mark Allen — who is the father of her daughter — was a member of a criminal syndicate that was run by Dyer.

Dyer, Allen, and Matthew Lee were killed by the police on January 12, 2013 on Acadia Drive in St Andrew during an alleged shootout. On trial for murder in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston in relation to their deaths are Sergeant Simroy Mott, Corporal Donovan Fullerton, and constables Andrew Smith, Sheldon Richards, Orandy Rose, and Richard Lynch.

Fullerton is also charged with making a false statement to the Independent Commission of Investigations.

The cops alleged that on the day in question they were carrying out an operation when they signalled a Mitsubishi Outlander motor vehicle to stop. The cops claimed that the driver was initially hesitant to comply with the request, but when the vehicle stopped, men alighted from it, opening fire on the police. The three men were killed in the alleged exchange of bullets. The fourth man was said to have escaped.

During cross-examination by defence attorney Hugh Wildman, the witness said she had no clue that Dyer was reporting to the police on a gun-related matter up to the time he was killed.

She said was aware that Dyer went by the nickname ‘Gaupa’, but she didn’t know him to be a don. The witness said that she did not see Dyer very often, but based on her knowledge, he was a good person.

She told the attorney that he was not correct in suggesting that Allen, the father of her child, was part of Dyer’s criminal syndicate.

She told the seven-member jury that her daughter’s father and Dyer were good friends who lived in Grant’s Pen. The witness denied knowing whether Grant’s Pen was infested with gunmen, because she had never seen one.

According to her, she stayed mostly inside her house and didn’t try to know much of what went on outside.

Wildman asked the witness if she knew Matthew Lee and she said “yes”, explaining that he hailed from an upscale area of St Andrew and was also a friend of her daughter’s father.

She shared that Lee would visit Allen in Grant’s Pen sometimes. The witness explained that before Allen was killed, the last time she saw him was in Grant’s Pen.

She told the court that Allen used to work as a caddy at a golf course in St Andrew, but he later ventured into the music business.

She shared that when she went to the morgue at Kingston Public Hospital to identify Allen’s body, she started to cry and fell to her knees.

The witness was asked by the prosecution to tell the court how old Allen was when he died. She was unable to say definitively but she believed he was in his 30s.

“I last saw him on January 11, 2013 on a Friday about 7:00 pm at my house. He was a good person, genuine, kind and loving,” she said.

She also said she had known Matthew Lee for about a year up to the time of his death and she regarded him as a “very good and loving person”.

The witness told the court that her relationship with Allen ended in 2006 but they remained very close because of their daughter.

“He was a good father. He came by the house every day and helped her with her homework,” the witness added.

The trial continues next Wednesday.