Cop’s girlfriend said she saw blood spots in her car loaned to Peart
The murder trial against a police constable and his sister, Jeffery and Roxanne Peart, continued in the St. Ann Circuit Court last week, with several witnesses for the prosecution called to give evidence.
The Crown also entered into evidence several exhibits including a firearm said to belong to the policeman; statement from a woman (now deceased) who was reportedly the then girlfriend of the policeman; several pictures of a car belonging to the said woman; as well as the phone record of several numbers assigned to Digicel.
Several witnesses, including police officers, who were involved in different aspects of the murder investigation, as well as two senior executives from telecommunication company Digicel, also took the witness stand.
Jeffery and Roxanne Peart are charged for the murder of Delroy Frame, a taxi operator from Hanover, whose headless body was found in bushes in the Wildcane community, near Cave Valley on May 19, 2012.
When the trial resumed Monday after the weekend break, a police corporal who started the probe into the murder testified about his initial investigation into the matter, which included his visits to the murder scene, as well as his visit to the area where Frame’s burnt out station wagon motor vehicle was found.
NO HEAD
Corporal Neil Morriston also told the court about the condition of the headless body when it was found in the ditch and the police’s effort to locate Frame’s head, which has still not been found. He said search for the head included members of the Caribbean Search Center and the Canine division.
He said the police searched several areas including Wild Cane where the body was found, White Sand where the burnt out vehicle was found and Bohemia where the accused siblings’ father lives.
Two executives of Digicel also testified last week about the operations and maintenance of the company and requests made by the prosecution for the phone records of several numbers. One of the Digicel executives said the records of six cellular phone numbers, over the period May 15 to May 25, 2012, and in one case, from May 15 to May 23, 2012, were provided to the prosecution.
The court also heard details of a statement reportedly given to the police by the woman said to the girlfriend of Jeffery Peart, before her body was found in a Cane Field in Westmoreland on July 31, 2012.
The statement from Kadena Jarrett was admitted into evidence as Exhibit 11, in its entirety, despite objection from defense lawyers Lambert Johnson and Herbert McKenzie who wanted sections of the statement to be omitted.
GIRLFRIEND DEAD TOO
Jarrett reportedly gave police the statement on May 25, almost a week after Frame’s headless body was found. Jarrett was later found dead, in July.
According to Jarrett’s statement, which was read in court last Thursday, Peart had borrowed her car to travel to Manchester on May 19, 2012. When the car was returned it had mud and spots of blood in the trunk. In the statement the woman also claimed Peart told her following his arrest to deny knowing him and to delete his number from her phone.
Detective sergeant Michael Moore who arrested both Peart and his sister testified that after he seized Jarrett’s car, he witnessed forensic experts carry out an examination of the same vehicle as well as the photographing of the said car.
During the cross examination of detective Sergeant Moore, defense attorney for Jeffery Peart, Lambert Johnson, sought to discredit the statement given to him by Jarrett. He also said there was another statement, which contradicts aspects of the statement given by Jarrett, but said that statement was not provided to the court.
The alleged statement is expected to be handed over to the court.
The trial continues this week with more witnesses for the prosecution.
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