‘Chucky’ Brown Trial | Accused tried to justify murders in interview
Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMNickoy Wilson/Gleaner Writer
Murder-accused Constable Collis 'Chucky' Brown was heard trying to justify some of the killings he is alleged to have committed as the recording of the August 6, 2013, interview, conducted by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) with him, was played during the trial in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston, yesterday.
In the interview, INDECOM Assistant Commissioner Hamish Campbell asked Brown: "Do you see the fatal shootings as work? Legitimate work? You think?"
"Some a them," Brown said.
He was then asked by the INDECOM investigator present how he saw the other killings, to which he responded "supm weh you haffi do".
Campbell asked him why he had agreed to do them in the first place, but Brown said that if one refused to do the fatal shootings, then one would be pressured.
"Mek me tell yuh how the force run. You see if they know how you stay or the kind of person you are, they call you to do certain things, any kind a duty, yuh get pure pressure," Brown was heard saying, with the jury following the transcript and intently listening to the recording.
Brown said that he returned to the Clarendon Police Division in 2008, which is when he was asked to join the 'special police squad' by senior members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
"All right. All right. When I came back, I was called by Mr H in his office and was asked ... . They say that they are forming a team, right? Him go round, go round Mr F until him tell me them forming a team that a go do some drive-by-shooting - like some fellows weh a do the murders them," Brown said.
PROVIDED WITH RESOURCES
As the interview progressed, Brown also gave details about the resources they were provided, corroborating Campbell's testimony that the 'special police squad' was supplied with a white Probox motor vehicle and M16 rifles.
Brown also said: "We were given specific targets. Our focus was downloaded from the DIU (Divisional Intelligence Unit) office, printed, and given to us."
Brown is indicted on five charges stemming from the January 10, 2009, murder of Robert 'Gutty' Dawkins and the December 13, 2012, murders of Dwayne Douglas and Andrew Fearon. Both incidents happened in Clarendon.
He is facing three charges of murder, one count of conspiracy to commit murder, and one count of wounding with intent.
The trial will be resumed today when the jury will be made to listen to the interview INDECOM conducted with the accused on August 10, 2013.