Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A BULLET fragment which was found in the left front door of the motor car in which two senior citizens were fatally shot came from one of the two firearms which were found at the crime scene in Flankers, St. James.
Ballistics expert Daniel Wray made the disclosure yesterday as he testified before Justice Kay Beckford and the jury at the double murder trial in the Home Circuit Court.
Woman Constable Bibzie Foster, Special Constable Metro McFarlane and constables Kevin Williams, Kadian Smith and Donald Thomas have been on trial since June 19.
They are charged with the murder of 63-year-old taxi driver, David Bacchas and 63-year-old newspaper vendor and chef Cecil Brown, both of Flankers. They were fatally shot in a motor car on October 25, 2003 in Flankers.
Wray said he received a Haskell .45 semi-automatic pistol and a .38 Smith & Wesson pistol. He said he conducted tests and found that the Haskell firearm was not recently fired and was incapable of firing ammunition because it had no main spring or firing pin.
He said the .38 pistol was recently fired and could have been fired on October 25, 2003. He said he found several bullet fragments in the motor car and a bullet fragment found in the left front door was fired from the .38 pistol. He said five cartridges which he received for testing were also fired from the . 38 pistol.
Wray said he received several other firearms and two envelopes, one of which had a plastic tube labelled 'Audrey Stephens' pellets'. He said the tube had four small bullet fragments and were of the 5.56 copper-jacketed firearm bullet. The other envelope had a small glass tube labelled 'David Bacchas' which had in it a small copper fragment of a 5.56mm fired copper-jacketed firearm bullet.
Evidence was given earlier on in the trial that 5.56 bullets are used in M-16 rifles.
