Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A detective removes an item from the house in Kraal, Clarendon, on June 3, 2003 where four people were killed in May 2003. - File
THE JURY heard evidence this week that Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams was seen planting a gun and spent shells at the crime scene at Kraal, Clarendon, on May 7, 2003.
The testimony came from a policeman who was formerly attached to the disbanded Crime Management Unit which was headed by SSP Adams.
There was evidence from an eleven-year-old girl who said policemen, having disembarked a bus at Kraal, began firing shots at persons who were on the verandah of a house. The persons ran inside the house. The girl said she and a woman were under the bed when a policeman ordered them from under the bed. She said she was sitting in the woman's lap and the woman was holding onto her when the policeman told the woman to let her go.
HEARD THE SOUND OF GUNSHOT
When the woman refused, the policeman squeezed the woman's neck and the woman released her. She said the policeman took her outside into the yard and after that she heard the sound of gunshot coming from inside the house.
The woman the girl was referring to was 47-year-old Angella Richards, one of the four civilians who were shot and killed at Kraal on May 7, 2003.
These were two of the five witnesses who testified this week in the Home Circuit Court at the trial of SSP Adams and Corporals Patrick Coke and Shane Lyons and Constables Devon Bernard, Roderick Collier and Leford Gordon.
They have been on trial since October 31 for the murder of Richards, 39-year-old Lowena Thompson, of Kraal, and Kirk Gordon and Matthew James both 27, of Spanish Town, St. Catherine.
