‘Chucky’ Brown Trial | Accused allegedly went to JFJ for help

A human-rights activist said that police Constable Collis 'Chucky' Brown visited the offices of Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) on Fagan Avenue in St Andrew for help between 2012 and 2013 as she testified in his trial at the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston yesterday.

In a meeting that she said lasted for about two hours, Brown allegedly told her that he wanted to seek asylum for himself and his family because he believed they were under threat after being booted from a 'special' police squad and transferred to the Greater Portmore (100 Man) Police Station.

The rights activist said that the accused told her that he did not qualify for asylum and she referred him to a former high-level member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), who advised him on a suitable course of action.

She said the accused told her that his gun was taken from him in connection with a murder at the May Pen Hospital. She told the court that Brown believed that he was being set up, claiming the police knew he did not commit the crime.

According to the rights activist, Brown believed he had fallen out of favour with the rest of the squad and thought he knew too much, making him a liability.

It was revealed yesterday that an entry from the May Pen Police Station diary to confirm that the police collected a statement from the Crown's first witness could not be found.

It was also disclosed by the lead investigator in the 2009 murder investigation that the bullet retrieved from the body of Robert 'Gutty' Dawkins after the autopsy had gone missing.

Brown is being tried for the January 10, 2009, murder of Dawkins along the Palmer's Cross main in Clarendon and the December 13, 2012, murders of Dwayne Douglas and Andrew Fearon along the Swansea main road in the parish.

He is also answering to charges of wounding with intent and conspiracy to murder.