Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
THE FLANKERS murder case continued yesterday with 54-year-old fruit vendor Audrey Stephens testifying under cross-examination that the motor car in which she was travelling did not drive into any shootout.
Stephens was testifying in the Home Circuit Court at the trial of Woman Constable Bibzie Foster and the four policemen charged with the murder of 63-year-old taxi driver, David Bacchas, and 63-year-old chef and newspaper vendor, Cecil Brown.
Stephens was travelling in the motor car on the early morning of October 25, 2003, in Flankers, St. James, when Bacchas and Brown were shot dead in the car. Stephens was also shot and was treated at hospital.
Last week, Superintendent Derrick 'Cowboy' Knight testified before Miss Justice Kay Beckford and the jury that he and a police party went on an operation in Flankers on the day of the incident to search for wanted men, including Christopher Hyman. He said the police party came under attack from gunmen and the red motor car in which the two deceased and Stephens were travelling drove into the crossfire.
Stephens yesterday denied the suggestion from defence lawyer, Valerie Neita-Robertson, that the car drove into the shooting. It was suggested to Stephens that citizens in Flankers were living with gunmen in the area but she said that was not so.
'NO ONE ORDER'
Asked if she knew of the One Order Gang, she said she only heard about it from the newspaper. She also denied the suggestion that, when she was leaving the Flankers community in the early hours of the mornings, there were members of the One Order Gang standing heavily armed on the roadway.
Cross-examined by defence lawyer Deborah Martin, she said there were things in her police statement that she did not tell the police, and some of the things she told the police about the incident were not read back to her.
Special Constable Metro McFarlane and constables Kevin Williams, Kadian Smith and Donald Thomas are also charged with the double murder.
