Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
Senior Superintendent of Police, Reneto Adams. - NORMAN GRINDLEY /DEPUTY CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
A POLICEMAN testified yesterday that the day after four civilians were fatally shot at Kraal, Clarendon, he went to Johnson's Funeral Parlour at Four Paths, Clarendon, where he found four live rounds of ammunition in the pockets of one of the dead men.
Detective Corporal Franklin Brown made the disclosure while giving evidence at the trial of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams and the five other policemen charged with the murder of two women and two men at Kraal on May 7, 2003.
The trial began in the Home Circuit Court on Monday before Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe and a 12-member jury.
The other policemen on trial are Corporal Patrick Coke, Constables Devon Bernard, Shane Lyons, Roderick Collier and Leford Gordon.
Those killed in Kraal were Lowena Richards, Angella Richards, Matthew James and Kirk Gordon.
Det Brown was the fifth witness called by the prosecution yesterday. He testified that he was a technician at the Scene of Crime Unit. He said about 8.45 p.m. on May 7, 2003 he and other policemen went to Kraal. He said there he saw Senior Superintendent Adams at the premises. He said he told SSP Adams that he had come to process the scene and SSP Adams said, "Okay Mr. Brown, allow us to remove the injured persons before photographing the scene." He said the injured were lifted from the premises but he did not see where they were taken.
FIREARMS IN HOUSE
He then took photographs inside and outside the house. He said he saw a rifle with a telescopic lens inside the hall and on a bed he saw several live cartridges. There was a 9mm Taurus pistol with a magazine containing six live rounds in a room. The firearms were tendered in evidence yesterday. Det. Brown said before he left the scene he asked that it be protected and SSP Adams was the senior officer there.
The next day he and Constable Joshua Black - now deceased - went to Johnson's Funeral Parlour where he photographed four bodies. He said the hands of the deceased were swabbed and fingerprinted. While he was fingerprinting one of the deceased males, he felt a bulge in the right front trousers pocket and found four live rounds in it. He placed them in a container and handed them over to Det. Sgt. Brown of the Bureau of Special Investigations.
Four witnesses said they identified the bodies at the Spanish Town Morgue on May 22, 2003. Anthony Gordon, a woodworker, who identified the body of his 27-year-old brother Kirk Gordon, an electrician, was thoroughly cross-examined. He said he knew Bashington Douglas also called 'Chen Chen', who was a friend of his. Asked if he was aware that Douglas was wanted by the police, the witness said yes. He said he did not know if Douglas was a member of the One Order gang .
The trial continues today.
