By Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterTHE TRIAL of 39-year-old Paul Gooden, former consultant at Yummy Bakery, St. Andrew, continued yesterday in the Home Circuit Court with Gooden denying suggestions under cross-examination that he took his wife's body to his mother's home on the night of November 6 last year.
Gooden said he heard evidence of how blood was found inside his car but he could not say how blood got there.
It is being alleged at the trial, which began on October 26 this year in the Home Circuit Court, that Gooden strangled his 36-year-old wife Ingrid Andrade-Gooden, between November 6 and 7 last year at their home at Hartford Towers Apartment, 7 Sullivan Avenue, St. Andrew. The body was found in mangroves off the Norman Manley Highway, Kingston, on November 8 last year. Gooden was taken into custody on November 9 last year. The deceased was an administrator at the National Housing Develop-ment Corporation (NHDC).
The Crown, represented by Kent Pantry, Q.C., director of public prosecutions, David Fraser, deputy director of public prosecutions, and Diahann Gordon-Harrison, Crown counsel, is alleging that the motives for the murder were jealousy, obsession and rejection.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
Under cross-examination yesterday by Mr. Pantry, the accused Gooden said he could not "recollect" saying many of the things which were in the statement which he had given to the police between November 9 and 10 last year.
Gooden said he was put under a lot of pressure when he was giving the statement and at the same time he was grieving for his wife. He said there were many things that he told the police which were not in the police statement.
He said he did not know how blood got on various items in the apartment where he and his wife lived. He also denied suggestions from Mr. Pantry that his wife had rejected him. He admitted that his wife told him on several occasions to give her space but Gooden said he did not regard that as rejection.
Gooden said that he massaged his wife's feet every night but did not recall telling the police that. He said he and his wife made love the Wednesday night and he could never forget when he and his wife made love. He said on Thursday November 6 last year, he spoke to his wife a little after 7:00 p.m. and he remembered asking her if she was okay. He admitted calling her several times that day.
The trial continues today before Justice Marva McIntosh and the jury.
