‘Me daddy a police’ – Witness recounts last words of deceased
Published:Tuesday | November 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMNickoy Wilson/Gleaner Writer
A Crown witness yesterday told the court that Andrew Bisson's last words were "me daddy a police", before meeting his demise in a board house in the Corn Piece district in Hayes, Clarendon, on September 5, 2011.
Testifying during the trial of Detective Corporal Kevin Adams, District Constable Howard Brown and Constable Carl Bucknor, who are charged with Bisson's murder, the witness told the court that Bisson was taken into a board house by the three policemen and shot dead.
He then told the court that the police removed the body from the house and other men who were on the scene were taken into custody.
The witness told the court that the following day, the three policemen returned to the house "digging, scratching over the house like fowl looking through the bullet holes".
Lead prosecutor Queen's Counsel Caroline Hay asked the witness to identify the accused, three of whom were standing in the dock.
He identified Adams as Chucky Brown, Bucknor as Addy, and Brown as Gaza Man, which evoked chuckles from members of the defence.
Constable Collis 'Chucky' Brown was recently convicted of three counts of murder. He was also found guilty of one count of wounding with intent and conspiracy to commit murder
Defence attorney, Queen's Counsel Valerie Neita-Robertson, during cross-examination, pointed out that the witness used a fake name on three occasions when he gave statements to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM).
Neita-Robertson asked, "When you signed the document, you were telling a lie?"
"Truthfully, yes, sir," the witness said, evoking chuckles from members of the defence.
According to the defence attorney, the witness told INDECOM in his first statement that he recognised two of the police officers, one who he identified as 'Chucky' Brown and the other as 'Gaza', both from the May Pen Police Station.
He agreed that he said that to INDECOM.
She also pressed him on the claim in his first statement that he recognised two of the men.
The witness said, "That was the truth at that time."
Neita-Robertson also suggested that the witness was one of convenience and that he was an untruthful person. He disagreed with both assertions.
The cross-examination of the witness will continue today.