Hoverboard allegedly given as part payment for Campbell-Collymore murder

Barbados-born businessman Omar ‘Best’ Collymore reportedly gave the alleged contract killer a hoverboard as part payment for the murder of his wife.

The revelation was made yesterday by the investigator during his evidence-in-chief in the Home Circuit Court, where the 41-year-old is being tried for murder along with three of his alleged accomplices.

The detective sergeant testified that the defendant, Michael Adams, told him that Collymore gave him the hoverboard as part of the payment for the murder and took a team of police to the house where the electric scooter was recovered.

The hoverboard has been tendered into evidence.

Thirty-two-year-old Simone Campbell-Collymore, described as a quintessential mother, wife and businesswoman as well as "the centrepiece of her family", was killed in a brazen daylight attack along with taxi-driver Winston 'Corey' Walters on January 2, 2018.

They were killed when men rode up on motorbikes and sprayed them with bullets as they waited to be let inside Campbell-Collymore Forest Ridge apartment complex in Red Hills, St Andrew.

Collymore, a United States citizen, is accused of orchestrating his wife’s murder along with his co-defendants, Adams, Dwayne Pink and Shaquille Edwards.

One of the triggermen in Campbell-Collymore’s murder previously testified that he was told that the hit was for $2 million.

Wade Blackwood, a confessed member of the Unruly Gang, who is currently serving two life sentences for the murders, had disclosed that he got the price tag from the other shooter, 'Jim', the gang leader, who is now deceased.

Blackwood also testified that Adams was the contract killer and was the one who spoke with the man who ordered the hit on the woman.

As it relates to the hoverboard, Edwards, in his caution statement, which was previously read in court, said he was with travelling Adams when he collected a black and gold Sky Walker device from Collymore.

That brand of hoverboard currently ranges from US$499.99 to $799.99.

Additionally, another police witness, earlier in the trial, testified that Adams had directed him to a home in Marverly, St Andrew where he retrieved the hoverboard and handed it over to his superior.

Meanwhile, Collymore, in a caution statement recorded by the investigating officer, said he did not know the value of his wife's insurance and was also not aware of who the beneficiaries were.

He also stated that he never signed any document indicating he was a beneficiary on her policy.

However, he said in his statement that his children were the beneficiaries of his life insurance.

The statement was taken from him on January 10, 2018, before he was a suspect in his wife's murder.

The trial continues today.

tanesha.mundle@gleanerjm.com