New twist in trial of policemen
Published:Saturday | May 7, 2011 | 12:00 AM
THE TRIAL of the four policemen charged with the murder of a Grants Pen Road resident continued yesterday with a prosecution witness denying that he told the police that he saw one of the policemen shoot the deceased.
Jermaine Edie said his statement was not read over to him and he was not given the statement to read.
He said he gave the statement at the Bureau of Special Investigations in October 2007. Edie said he signed the statement, but some of the things he told the police were not in the statement, and some of the things he saw in the statement were not true. He said he signed the statement because the police told him to do so.
Attorney-at-law Kathy Pyke, who is prosecuting the case, was granted permission by Supreme Court Judge Donald McIntosh to tender in evidence certain sections of Edie's statement.
Constables Noel Bryan, Philip Dunstan, Clayton Fearon, and Omar Miller are on trial in the Home Circuit Court for the murder of 18-year-old André Thomas of Grants Pen Road, St Andrew.