The key prosecution witness at the trial of Corporal Kevin Adams and Constable Jerome Whyte on Thursday insisted that he witnessed the shooting death of Anthony Trought by members of the so-called Clarendon police “death squad”.
Mr. Trought was shot dead on February 13, 2012 in Race Track, Clarendon during an operation, targeting men involved in the guns for drugs trade between Jamaica and Haiti.
Corporal Adams and Constable Whyte were later charged by INDECOM.
Under intense cross examination by the defence, the witness insisted that Mr. Trought exited his car with his hands in the air.
He said after a brief conversation, Mr. Trought was shot.
In his initial testimony at the pre-trial hearing, he had testified that after Mr. Trought fell, other policemen stood over him and shot him several times.
On Thursday, he told the court that the statement was an error.
He said the cops fired the bullets in the air.
The post mortem showed that Mr. Trought sustained three bullet wounds.
Corporal Adams’ attorney, Valerie Neita Robertson, declared to the witness that Mr. Trought was fatally shot during a confrontation with the police.
She also suggested to the witness, a deportee, who has almost ten convictions, that he was lying to the court.
Corporal Adams, who was charged with four counts of murder during INDECOM’s crackdown on the so-called “death squad”, has already won two of the cases against him.
The trial continues on Friday
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