A FORMER member of the disbanded Crime Management Unit testified yesterday that he saw Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams planting a firearm and spent shells at the crime scene at Kraal, Clarendon.
Constable Tyrone Brown said the firearm came from an office at Homestead Road, east Kingston, on the evening of May 7, 2003. The firearm was taken to Kraal and handed over to SSP Adams who put it in one of the rooms at Kraal.
The witness was testifying at the third week of the murder trial of SSP Adams and the other five policemen charged with the murder of four civilians at Kraal on May 7, 2003.
Constable Brown told the court that he and other members of the CMU were at Spanish Town and were about to go off duty when a Corporal Ramsay spoke with him.
He said he and other policemen travelled in two unmarked vehicles to a building in eastern Kingston.
The witness said he knew that Danhai Williams (east Kingston businessman) and a man called 'Softie' worked at the office where they went on Homestead Road. He said when they went to the building he remained outside, but Corporal Tingling and Sergeant Ballen went inside. Constable Brown testified that it was close to 6:00 p.m. when he saw a short dark man with metal on his teeth come out and hand Tingling something which appeared to be a firearm.
He said Tingling put it in a yellow paper bag after which they all went to Kraal. He said on the way to Kraal, Tingling got out of the car on two occasions and fired shots from the firearm and collected the spent shells.
When they reached Kraal, he saw SSP Adams and they went into a room where he saw the body of a woman and a rifle lying on the floor. Corporal Tingling gave SSP Adams the yellow paper bag. SSP Adams, in referring to the rifle on the floor, said "See the gun deh weh de dutty boy dem a fire."
SSP Adams went to a room where there was the body of a man. SSP Adams bent down, took the firearm from the bag and placed it on the floor. He (Adams) then picked out the spent shells and threw them on the floor.
Cross-examined by K. Churchill Neita, Q.C., who represents SSP Adams, the witness said he did not give his statements to the police until this year. The witness denied the suggestion that he was lying when he said he saw SSP Adams planting the firearm.
