Eyewitness ‘a stranger to truth’ – attorney

THE DEFENCE attorney for murder accused Constable Collis ‘Chucky’ Brown yesterday said that the prosecution’s sole eyewitness was “a total stranger to the truth”.

According to Norman Godfrey, the witness’ testimony that he saw the accused come out of the vehicle on January 10, 2009, along the Palmer’s Cross main road in Clarendon cannot be believed.

He said that the prosecution wants the jury to believe that Brown was in the vehicle or that he was the driver of the vehicle based on witness testimony and Brown’s interview, respectively.

Godfrey said, “If you don’t believe Brown, you can’t believe the prosecution.”

He maintained that Robert ‘Gutty’ Dawkins was not running away from the alleged shooter because the medical evidence shows that he was shot from the front, not from behind.

The prosecution ended their closing arguments suggesting that Brown made his own decision when he carried out the alleged killings. They said that because Brown did not have to follow an unlawful order, this obliterated the argument that he did not have a choice in what he allegedly did.

Brown is on trial for the 2009 murder of Dawkins as well as the December 13, 2012, murders of Dwayne Douglas and Andrew Fearon along the Swansea main road in the parish.

He is also facing one count of wounding with intent and one count of conspiracy to murder.

The defence will continue presenting its closing arguments today.