Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
Scotland Yard and local detectives removing furniture from the death house in Kraal, Clarendon, on June 3, 2003. - FILE
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT Reneto Adams and the five policemen charged with the murder of four civilians visited the death house in Kraal, Clarendon, after the Supreme Court gave them the go-ahead.
The application was granted by Justice Wesley James.
Previously, one of the conditions of the policemen's bail was that they should not visit Kraal.
CONDITIONS OF BAIL VARIED
The lawyers applied to have the conditions of bail varied to allow the policemen to visit the scene as they were of the view that it would be most helpful to their clients' defence.
The trial begins next Monday before Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe and a jury in the Home Circuit Court.
Defence lawyers K. Churchill Neita, Q.C., Valerie Neita-Robertson, Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, Debra Martin, Oswest Senior-Smith and Althea McBean accompanied their clients to the Kraal house.
The other policemen charged are Corporal Patrick Cooke, Constables Shane Lyons, Roderick Colleyard, Lynford Gordon and Devon Bernard.
The Crown is alleging that on May 7, 2003, a police party, led by SSP Adams, former head of the now-disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), went to Kraal in search of Bashington Douglas, otherwise called 'Chen Chen'.
They went to a house in the district where they allegedly shot and killed Lewena Thompson, Angella Richards, Kirk Gordon and Matthew James.
Kent Pantry, Q.C., Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Jamaican attorney-at-law Terrence Williams, the DPP in the British Virgin Islands; and David Fraser, acting Senior Deputy DPP, are representing the Crown.
