Omar Anderson, Gleaner Writer
WILLIAMS
DANHAI WILLIAMS, People's National Party activist and businessman, had been granted immunity by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to testify against Reneto Adams.
DPP Kent Pantry confirmed the information on the weekend.
"I gave him immunity for him to be able to come and give evidence," he told The Gleaner.
A DPP can grant immunity to someone to testify against others in a criminal matter without that person fearing prosecution.
Despite the immunity, Williams never turned up to testify in the Kraal trial, claiming later that he was being forced to lie under oath. He made this admission recently while appearing in the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC)/Operation PRIDE fraud case in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.
Williams is being represented in that case by Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, who was a member of SSP Adams' defence team. If Williams had testified, Mrs. Samuels-Brown would have been forced to cross-examine him, her client in another case.
THAT PEGASUS CALL
Williams said in a statement to former Assistant Commissioner of Police Osbourne Dyer on July 15, 2003, that about 6:30 p.m. on May 7, 2003, he was at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel visiting a friend when SSP Adams telephoned him. The Gleaner viewed a copy of the statement.
Williams said the senior superintendent asked him to call persons to determine whether they had any illegal firearm. The businessman further stated that he later called an east Kingston community leader to assist SSP Adams. Williams said the next day he called the community leader, who told him "some people" visited him and he dealt with the matter.
According to Williams, he interpreted "the people" as being agents of SSP Adams.
The businessman added in his statement that the community leader told him he had given SSP Adams' agents a handgun after speaking with them.
Constable Tyrone Brown, who was a part of the police team that visited Kraal on May 7, 2003, testified that he had accompanied other policemen to east Kingston for a handgun that SSP Adams allegedly planted at the scene of the killing of the four persons at Kraal.
