CONSTABLE TYRONE Brown, who is now living overseas, testified on Monday that he and other members of the CMU were at Spanish Town and were about to go off duty when a Corporal Ramsey who was also a member of the CMU spoke with him.He said he and other policemen travelled in two unmarked vehicles to a building in eastern Kingston. He said he knew that Danhai Williams (East Kingston businessman) and a man called 'Softie' worked at the office where they went on Homestead Road. He remained outside but Corporal Tingling and Sergeant Ballen went inside the premises. He said it was close to 6.00 p.m. when he saw a short dark man with metal on his teeth come out and hand Tingling something which appeared to be a firearm. Tingling put it in a yellow paper bag and they left for Kraal.
On the way to Kraal, Tingling got out of the car on two occasions, fired shots from the firearm and collected the spent shells. When they reached Kraal, he saw SSP Adams and they went into a room where he saw the body of a woman and a rifle lying on the floor. Corporal Tingling gave SSP Adams the yellow paper bag and SSP Adams in referring to the rifle on the floor said "see the gun deh weh de dutty boy dem a fire." SSP Adams went to a room where there was the body of a man. SSP Adams bent down, took the firearm from the bag and placed it on the floor. He (Adams) then picked out the spent shells and threw them on the floor.
Cross-examined by K. Churchill Neita, Q.C., who represents SSP Adams, the witness said he did not give his statements to the police until this year. He said the first statement was on June 29 and the others were on July 1 and 5. When Mr. Neita asked him if he remembered that he was accused of being involved in the selling of visas he replied "at no time was I accused of selling visas".
On being asked if SSP Adams had spoken to him about his alleged involvement in a visa racket the witness said: "at no time did SSP Adams speak to me about a visa racket". In response to the suggestion that he was telling a monstrous lie when he said he saw SSP Adams placing (planting) the gun with ammunition in a room, the witness said: "no I am not lying. I saw him with my eyes."
Cross-examined by attorney-at-law Valerie Neita-Robertson, the witness admitted that his alias was 'Dutty Dog Brown'. He hesitated when asked if he was living in a foreign country.
Prosecutor Terrence Williams in objecting to the question said some arrangement was made under the Witness Protection Programme for Brown and described the question as irrelevant.
Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe ruled that the witness should answer the question. When the witness was asked if he were living outside the shores of Jamaica, he replied "yes." He said he was not employed abroad but he got a subsistence. It was suggested that it was because of the offer to live abroad that he was telling lies in court and he said no. He said while he was in Spanish Town, he heard the radio transmission about the Kraal incident but he did not recall if the time was 6.08 p.m.
