Despite the defence objecting, a day earlier, to a witness and a seven-member jury being shown crime scene images on a DVD, prosecutors were given the green light on Tuesday to reel off the photos which mostly depicted spent casings and bloody concrete.

This was the latest development in the murder trial of 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.

The incident which led to them being on trial in the Home Circuit Court was the January 12, 2013 shooting deaths of Matthew Lee, Ucliffe Dyer, and Mark Allen on Acadia Drive in St Andrew.

The men were travelling in a blue Mitsubishi Outlander and it is alleged they were signalled to stop by the cops, who were conducting an operation. It is further alleged that the driver of the vehicle was initially hesitant to stop, but when he did, men alighted from the motor vehicle and challenged the police in a gun battle, during which Lee, Dyer, and Allen were cut down. A fourth man allegedly escaped.

The witness, a former detective constable, is currently overseas, having left the Jamaica Constabulary Force to take up another job. His mission overseas prevents him from physically appearing to testify, the court was told. By way of a special measures application, he was allowed to give evidence via video link.

The witness said he was responsible for photographing the crime scene on Acadia Drive and shared that sections of Evans and Roxborough avenues formed part of the scene as well.

In the photographs that the witness was shown on Tuesday, there were well over 30 crime scene markers. Most were placed beside 5.56mm and 9mm bullet casings that littered the scene.

Crime scene markers were also placed beside red substances on the ground, which the witness said resembled blood spots and blood trails.

Also captured in the photographs taken by the witness was a black and grey peak hat, a wallet, and what appeared to be a piece of belt.

The former detective asserted on Monday, when he began his testimony, that he could not verify whether a spent casing which was taken from an envelope was the same one he packaged and transported to the government forensic lab to be tested.

He was asked by prosecutor Kathy-Ann Pyke on Monday to say whether he could recall where he was on the day of the incident.

The witness told Pyke that he could not remember what he did 13 years ago and he could only reference a statement which he wrote following the incident.

“I made notes at the scene. We preserve memory by writing statements, and that is why I refer to my statement and not memory. This statement refreshes my memory on what I wrote but not what I did on that particular day,” he said.

The team of attorneys representing the cops is made up of Hugh Wildman, John Jacobs, and Althea Grant-Coppin.

The trial continues Wednesday.