Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
AT THE Flankers murder trial on Friday, an early adjournment was granted to allow the prosecution to call a witness to testify in relation to the serial number of a firearm.
The firearm was handed over at the Forensic Laboratory on October 31, 2003.
Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn said she needed time to call a particular witness after Miss Justice Kay Beckford turned down her application for a policeman to refresh his memory from an exhibit form.
Sergeant Winston Alexander had testified that on October 31, 2003, Sergeant Gilbert Fuller from the Bureau of Special Investigations gave him an M16 Rifle to hand over at the Forensic Laboratory.
Sergeant Alexander said the serial number of the firearm was 9545184.
He said he wrote the serial number on the exhibit form which he handed in at the Forensic Laboratory along with the firearm.
Questioned further, Sergeant Alexander said he could not recall what he had written on the form. On being asked if the wished to refresh his memory , he said yes.
Miss Llewellyn said in the interest of justice, she was asking the judge to allow Sgt. Alexander to refresh his memory from the form on which he had written two and a half years ago.
Defence lawyer Lloyd McFar-lane who is representing Special Constable Metro McFarlane objected saying Sgt. Alexander's statement written in December 2003 was consistent with the serial number he had given in his evidence.
In upholding the objection the judge said, "You cannot go back over that, he has already given the evidence."
Woman Constable Bibzie Foster, Special Constable Metro McFarlane and constables Kevin Williams, Kadian Smith and Donald Thomas are on trial in the Home Circuit Court.
They are charged with the murder of of 63-year taxi-driver David Bacchas and 65-year-old newspaper vendor and chef Cecil Brown.
They were fatally shot in a motor car in Flankers, St. James, on October 25, 2003.
