By Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterMRS. JUSTICE Marva McIntosh is expected to complete her summation to the jury today when the trial of 39-year-old Paul Gooden, who is charged with the murder of his wife, resumes in the Home Circuit Court.
The 12-member jury comprising six men and six women will then deliberate to hand down the verdict.
BODY FOUND IN MANGROVES
It is being alleged that Gooden, a former distribution consultant at Yummy Bakery, St. Andrew, strangled 36-year-old Ingrid Andrade-Gooden at their home at Hartford Towers Apartment, 7 Sullivan Avenue, St. Andrew, between November 6 and 7 last year. The body was found in mangroves off the Norman Manley Highway, Kingston, on November 8.
Gooden has denied killing his wife.
The judge, who began summing up to the jury last week Friday, has so far reviewed the evidence of 18 of the 22 prosecution witnesses who testified at the trial which began on October 26.
When the trial resumes today, the judge will review the evidence of the other four Crown witnesses as well as the evidence of the accused and his two defence witnesses.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
The judge, in reviewing the evidence of Patrick Clunie, salesman employed to Yummy Bakery, noted remarks he made under cross-examination by attorney-at-law Hugh Thompson. Clunie had admitted that he did not tell the police that Gooden had directed his attention to the bushes on four occasions while they were travelling to the Yacht Club, off the Norman Manley Highway.
The judge told the jury that when the witness Marcia Douglas, who said she knew the accused for 12 years said she did not give him a hug on November 9, 2003, because she knew he had done something to Ingrid, "this is not evidence, this is just the reason she gave you why she did not give him a hug". The judge added that "this is just her personal feeling, so please be careful. This is just her explanation for refusing to hug him."
