Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
STRONG OBJECTIONS from defence lawyers yesterday prevented Senior Superintendent of Police Donald Pusey from disclosing what he heard East Kingston businessman Danhai Williams saying on his cellular phone on the evening of May 7, 2003.
Pusey was testifying at the trial of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams and the other five policemen charged with the murder of four civilians at Kraal, Clarendon, on May 7, 2003.
He said he was the commanding officer of the Special Anti-Crime Task Force and, while he was at his office on the evening of May 7, 2003, Danhai Williams came to him. He was speaking to Williams when his (Williams) phone ran and Williams walked a few metres away from him.
"There was an inaudible conversation and I heard him saying...," SSP Pusey told the court before being cut off by objections from defence lawyer Valerie Neita-Robertson.
She argued that what Pusey was about to say was not said in the presence and hearing of the accused. She further argued that it had no probative value because Pusey did not know who was the other person on the telephone.
Prosecutor Terrence Williams said there was already evidence before the court by Officer Brown, about going to a certain premises (in east Kingston on May 7, 2003), but the Chief Justice said that had nothing to do with the premises to which Brown went.
When Mr. Williams asked for the jury to be sent out the Chief Justice said: "I don't see what you are saying in the absence of the jury that can make any difference because, what happened at the other place, there is no way he can say who Danhai Williams was talking to."
The Chief Justice then remarked that the logical sequence must be followed in calling witnesses.
FURTHER EXAMINED
Submissions were made in the absence of the jury and the witness and, on resumption, Pusey was further examined. He said he did not have any report of Constable Donovan Thompson being involved with the 'One Order' gang. He said there was a first aid policy in regards to injured people during a shoot-out and it was that the injured must be taken immediately to hospital.
Cross-examined by defence lawyer K. Churchill Neita, Q.C., he said Sgt. Que Facey told him that four people were killed at Kraal and two firearms were seized.
Cross-examined by Mrs. Neita-Robertson, he said Williams visited him at his office about 7:30 p.m. on May 7, 2003 and the conversation lasted 10 to 15 minutes.
