An officer from the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) said he erred, Monday, when he told a seven-member jury that two alleged eyewitnesses may have mentioned in statements to Indecom that a fourth man was part of a deadly 2013 scene in which three men were killed by cops on Acadia Drive in St Andrew.

After being given time to gather his thoughts on Tuesday, the Indecom officer said the information which he put in his statement actually came from a station diary which now cannot be located. His comments came during cross-examination by defence attorney Hugh Wildman.

“It was really information from the crime diary,” the witness said, referencing the book of records at Constant Spring Police Station which contained an entry about how the incident unfolded.

A superintendent of police previously told the court that even after extensive searches to locate station records relating to the case, none were found. The court has been made aware that photographs exist of what was said to be the diary and the relevant entry.

At this point, those photographs have not been admitted into evidence.

Six cops are on trial for murder in Kingston’s Home Circuit Court in relation to the incident in which Matthew Lee, Ucliffe Dyer and Mark Allen were killed, allegedly during a shoot-out with lawmen who were on an operation. The cops are Sergeant Simroy Mott and Corporal Donovan Fullerton, along with constables Andrew Smith, Sheldon Richards, Orandy Rose, and Richard Lynch. Corporal Fullerton is also charged with making a false statement to Indecom.

It is alleged that the three men were travelling in a blue Mitsubishi Outlander motor vehicle when the driver was signalled to stop. It is further alleged that the driver hesitated, but when the vehicle stopped, the men alighted and challenged the police in a gunfight. A fourth man was said to have escaped and two illegal firearms were seized.

The other attorneys representing the cops are John Jacobs and Althea Grant-Coppin. The trial judge is Sonia Bertram-Linton. The lead prosecutor is Kathy-Ann Pyke while Cygale Pennant is Pyke’s junior from the Office of the Director of Prosecutions.