The prosecution is relying on a dying declaration to prove its case against Beverly Scarlett, vendor, of 2A Penwood Road, Kingston 11, and her two adult daughters who are charged jointly with the murder of Scarlett's former lover.

Scarlett, Chantel Clarke and Shana Sterling are accused of murdering 66-year-old forklift operator and taxi driver Roy Reid.

The Crown, represented by Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, is alleging that Reid was murdered between September 4 and September 7, 2004.

Sergeant Howard McKenzie testified yesterday before Justice Kay Beckford and the jury in the Home Circuit Court, that on September 5, he saw Reid at the Kingston Public Hospital.

Burned and Beaten

Reid told him that when he went to Penwood Road on the night of September 4, 2004, Scarlett and her children stoned his motor car. The motor car crashed into a wall and the accused threw something like acid on him and set the car ablaze. When he came out of the car, they beat him with stones and bottles.

Reid and Scarlett were involved in an intimate relationship. The relationship ended about July 2004.

Reid allegedly went to Scarlett's home at Penwood Road, Kingston 11 about 11.30 p.m. on September 4, 2004, and was allegedly attacked by the accused. Sgt. McKenzie said further that he saw Reid on Penwood Road on the night of the incident and told a police officer to take him to hospital.