THE TRIAL of 25-year-old Christopher Dixon, upholsterer, of Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11, who is charged with the murder of 28-year-old self-proclaimed psychic, Safa Asuntuwa, continues in the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday.
Asuntuwa's body was found with several stab wounds in a gully along the Cavaliers main road, in rural St. Andrew, at about 10.30 a.m. on June 25, last year.
Lorraine Smith, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, and Diahann Gordon, Crown Counsel, are leading evidence that Asuntuwa was severely beaten and then stabbed several times.
The Crown is alleging that Asuntuwa was murdered sometime between June 24 and 25 and his body dumped in a gully along the Cavaliers main road, in rural St. Andrew. It is further alleged that Dixon and another man were the last to have seen Asuntuwa alive.
Michael Thompson testified on Monday and Wednesday, before Mr. Justice McIntosh and the 12-member jury, that on June 24 last year he saw Dixon and another man at Safa's house, Mount Joy, St. Andrew. He said he went out and, when he returned about 11.30 p.m. that same day, he saw Asuntuwa's black Honda Civic motor car being driven in the direction of Asuntuwa's house. He said the car went into the driveway, spun around and came towards him at a great speed. He said he had to jump on the bonnet of the car to avoid being hit.
POLICE INVOLVEMENT
Thompson said he jumped off the car, ran down a cliff and went to a neighbour's house. He asked the neighbour to call the police. When the police arrived, he said he made a report. While he was on the bonnet of the car, he said he looked inside and saw Dixon sitting in the front passenger seat and Dixon's friend driving Asuntuwa's black Honda Civic motor car. He said they were the two men who were at the house earlier that day.
Detective Inspector Altemorth Campbell testified that he received a report and on June 25 last year he and other policemen went along the Stony Hill Road, St. Andrew, near to Asuntuwa's house, where he saw Asuntuwa's motor car. The car was later taken to the Constant Spring Police Station.
Inspector Campbell said they went to Seaview Gardens on June 25 where he saw Dixon who was taken into custody.
