Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A RETIRED POLICEMAN testified on Tuesday that he saw what appeared to be bloodstains on the front passenger seat and seat belt of the motor car which the accused 31-year-old Janet Douglas was driving on the day when the body of her lover's wife was found.
The evidence was given by Evan Williams, a retired sergeant of police. He was testifying in the Home Circuit Court at the murder trial of Douglas, who is also called Edna Arnett, cosmetologist, of 37 Ziadie Avenue, Ziadie Gardens, St. Andrew.
The Crown, represented by Paula Llewellyn, Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, and Chester Crooks, Crown Counsel, is alleging that Douglas, who had a love affair with Detective Corporal Glen McGill, befriended his wife Isolyn because she had a plan to kill her.
The body of Isolyn Gibson-McGill, 32, dressmaker, of Cornpiece, Hayes, Clarendon, was found on Hilly Field Road, off the Bustamante Highway, Clarendon, on the night of November, 24, 2000. The body had 19 stab wounds.
Williams said when he went to the crime scene he found two supermarket receipts in the deceased's wallet. They were dated November 24, 2000. One bore the time 6:30 p.m. and the other, 6:36 p.m., and were signed by a cashier from SuperPlus supermarket.
SENT TO BUY PAMPERS
After he left the crime scene, he said he went to the May Pen Police Station where he saw Glen McGill who was crying. Det. Cpl. McGill gave him information and he went to McGill's home at Cornpiece about 11:20 p.m. He saw Douglas there standing beside a beige Mazda 626 motor car and he identified himself to her and cautioned her. He asked her if she had seen the deceased that evening, and she said yes. She said she had sent the deceased to May Pen to buy pampers and hair products.
Douglas told him that after the deceased left, she (Douglas) went to Mineral Heights, Clarendon, to attend to a sick person. He asked her where in Mineral Heights the lady was located, and Douglas said the dwelling place was hard to find. Douglas said she did not know how she had found it so easily but if she were to go back there, she would not be able to find it again.
He told her he wanted to search the car and she gave him the key. In her presence, he opened the trunk of the motor car and saw a pack of pink medium Cuties pampers which had the SuperPlus supermarket price tag on it. While searching the car, he found a black plastic bag with hair products and a bottle of body lotion in the glove compartment of the front passenger seat.
Those items also bore Super-Plus price tags. He showed them to the accused and she said she had bought them at Azan's downtown Kingston. When he told her that the items had SuperPlus price tags, Douglas said, "Officer, supermarkets sell them one another products." He said he told her that supermarkets sold similar things but had their own price tags.
