Court remands cop, co-accused for trial March 17 over alleged murder of colleague
Published:Thursday | March 13, 2025 | 12:08 AM
A police constable and his alleged accomplices implicated in the murder of a policewoman years ago were remanded for trial in the Home Circut Court on March 17.
The victim, Corporal Judith Williams, was gunned down on April 28, 2016, at a bus stop on Braes Street in Dunkirk, east Kingston. She was reportedly shot six times by two men.
Constable Gladstone Williams, who is believed to be the mastermind, and the alleged killers, Rohan Smith and Jessie ‘Pops’ Anderson, are all charged with murder.
The trial should have started on January 21 but has been delayed due to insufficient jurors and the prosecution’s failure to settle the witnesses on the indictment.
The court was previously advised that new witnesses would be added to the indictment while others would be removed.
However, when the matter was mentioned on Monday before Justice Leighton Pusey, a new trial date was fixed.
King’s Counsel Peter Champagnie, who is representing Williams, has previously expressed displeasure with the delay and unprepared state of the prosecution.
Champagnie charged that it was unacceptable that, after eight years of extensive case management, the indictment was still not completed.
The alleged mastermind is accused of plotting the woman’s murder after she brought him to court over a car she gave him to fix, and which he sold without permission.
Attorney-at-law CJ Mitchell is representing Smith while Leroy Equiano is representing Anderson.