Police constable accused of killing female colleague over car remanded

A police constable who reportedly orchestrated the murder of his female colleague eight years ago in a dispute over her car is to return to court on March 10 along with the two alleged triggermen after their trial failed to start in the Home Circuit Court last week.

The victim, Corporal Judith Williams, was gunned down on April 28, 2016, at a bus stop on Braes Street in Dunkirk, East Kingston. She was reportedly shot six times by two men.

Constable Gladstone Williams and the alleged killers, Rohan Smith and Jessie 'Pops' Anderson, were remanded by Justice Leighton Pusey last Wednesday.

The matter had to be postponed because of insufficient jurors.

Additionally, the prosecution had failed to settle the indictment. The court was told that new witnesses were to be added to the indictment, while others were to be removed.

Consequently, the judge also set a trial readiness hearing for January 27, for the court to be updated on when the indictment has been settled.

In the meantime, Kings Counsel Peter Champagnie, who is representing Williams, expressed displeasure with the delay and unprepared state of the prosecution.

Champagnie charged that it was unacceptable that after eight years of extensive case management, the indictment was still not completed.

The alleged mastermind is accused of plotting the woman’s murder after she brought him to court over a car she gave him to fix, and which he sold without permission.

Attorney-at-law CJ Mitchell is representing Smith while Leroy Equiano is representing Anderson.

- Tanesha Mundle

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