Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
THE FLANKERS murder case entered its fourth week yesterday with ballistics expert Daniel Wray describing the bullet holes and bullet fragments he found in the motor car in which two senior citizens were fatally shot.
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 for double murder.
They are charged with the murder of 63-year-old taxi driver David Bacchas and 63-year-old newspaper vendor and chef Cecil Brown. They were fatally shot in a motor car in Flankers, St. James, on October 25, 2003.
SERIAL NUMBER
Yesterday, the Crown called Woman Corporal Valerie Campbell, from the Forensic Laboratory, who said she had received a number of exhibits from Sergeant Winston Alexander and referred to the serial number of the firearms she had received. She was called to testify because on Friday the court did not allow Sgt. Alexander to refresh his memory from an exhibit form because, earlier in his evidence, he had stated the serial number of a firearm he handed over at the Forensic Laboratory on October 31, 2003.
Wray, who is also a retired assistant commissioner of police, said that between October 27, 2003 and January 16, 2004, he received a number of items and firearms in relation to the case. He said he also examined a motor car and found a number of bullet holes and bullet fragments in the car.
He said the right front and back door of the car had bullet holes and the shooters would have been stooping or bending low to the right side of the car which must have been moving forward. In respect to the distribution of bullet holes to the left front door, he said the car must have been moving slowly or was stationary when the shots were fired.
There were 9mm bullet holes, one .38 bullet hole and some M-16 firearm bullet holes in the motor car, Wray said.
