Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A CIVILIAN witness testified yesterday that she heard gunshots being fired into a zinc fence before the wrecker came to remove the motor car in which two senior citizens were fatally shot at Flankers, St. James, on October 25, 2003.
Yvonne Fray, who lives in Flankers, was testifying in the Home Circuit Court at the double murder trial of a policewoman and four policemen.
They are charged with the murder of 63-year-old taxi operator David Bacchas and 65-year-old chef Cecil Brown. Audrey Stephens, 54, who was a passenger in the motor car was also shot and injured during the incident.
Fray said she was in her bed that morning when she heard loud explosions and went on the floor. After she got up from the floor she peeped through a kitchen window upstairs and heard gunshots "coming from all over". She said she saw a red car travelling slowly towards a utility pole and also saw "a lot of men dressed in blue" and armed with guns.
When the car came to a halt, she said she saw police dressed in blue coming down towards it. She saw someone coming out of the motor car and saying, "You nuh see seh a taxi." She said she looked and saw that it was Audrey Stephens whom she knew for 12 years.
She said a white van drove up and two men were taken from the motor car and placed into the van. Audrey Stephens also went into the van.
She said further, "Before the wrecker came I heard some gunshots firing in the zinc fence and that was after I saw someone dressed in blue turn off the engine of the motor car which was still running."
On trial since last week Monday are Woman Constable Bibzie Foster, Special Constable Metro McFarlane, constables Kevin Williams, Kadian Smith, Donald Thomas.
