By Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter 
Pantry
THE MURDER trial of 39-year-old Paul Gooden, which has attracted a lot of public attention, continued yesterday with Kent Pantry, Q.C., director of public prosecutions (DPP), saying he will be dropping 'bombshells' to convince the jury that Gooden had strangled his wife between November 6 and 7 last year.
Mr. Pantry kept the spectators laughing during his presentation, which began on Wednesday afternoon and which was punctuated with humour. He told the jurors yesterday that he had several bombshells to drop in the case. He reminded the jury that Gooden was a confessed liar. He said Gooden admitted in court that he had lied about menstrual blood in the apartment where he had lived with his wife.
Gooden, a former distribution consultant at Yummy Bakery, is charged with the murder of his wife, 36-year-old Ingrid Andrade-Gooden. She was an administrator at the National Housing Development Corporation.
HUMAN BLOOD
The Crown is alleging that Gooden strangled her at their home at Hartford Towers Apartment, 7 Sullivan Avenue, between November 6 and 7 last year. The body was found in mangroves off the Norman Manley Highway in Kingston on November 8 last year.
Mr. Pantry said Lord Anthony Gifford, Q.C., who is representing Gooden, had referred to a term from the O.J. Simpson case that "if it does not fit, you must acquit."
"It is not good to copy things from different places that are not relevant to what you are doing. You don't hear anything about any gloves in this case, all I hear about is fitted sheet in this case," Mr. Pantry said.
Mr. Pantry reminded the jury of human blood found on the bed linen and other items in the apartment.
EMAILS AS DISTRACTIONS
In making reference to the emails tendered into evidence by the defence, Mr. Pantry said they were put in to let it appear that Gooden's wife had a sexual relationship with a man who came to Jamaica. Mr. Pantry said that was just being done to sully the deceased's good character. He described Gooden as a liar and referred to Gooden's defence in which he said that Glen Andrade, Q.C., a retired director of public prosecutions and father of the deceased, had told him that the deceased had gone to a hotel on November 7 last year with a man.
He said Gooden was telling lies on Mr. Andrade when he said that. He also referred to numerous 'lies' which he said Gooden told the police. Mr. Pantry said there was no evidence that Gooden saw his wife doing anything with anyone.
Mr. Pantry said Gooden would make it appear he was an outsider to the Andrades, who were providing for him. He said Gooden and his family lived in the Andrades' apartment, they provided meals for them, paid the helper and even did their laundry.
Mr. Pantry will continue to address the jury when the trial resumes today before Justice Marva McIntosh in the Home Circuit Court.
