The prosecution will call rebuttal evidence when the gun and ammunition trial of Zico Renaldo Williams continues in the No. 4 Supreme Court next Wednesday.
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This comes after a defence witness stated she was told by the accused’s mother that he said he had been beaten while in police custody.
Williams, who was listed as having no fixed place of abode, is accused of having a .38-calibre special revolver, as well as 14 rounds of ammunition, on October 16, 2022.
He is being represented by attorneys Kellyanne Blackman and Tania Elliott, while State Counsel Paul Prescod is prosecuting.
Yesterday, Venus Smith, aunt of the accused, told the court she was at home, on October 16, 2022, when Williams came to her house.
She said she gave him some food and he left.
Sometime later, she received a telephone call. The caller asked if she had heard the accused had been in an accident.
“I said ‘no’ and I went to social media to see if I see it there,” she said.
The aunt added that she did not go to the picnic and she had no knowledge of Clinketts, St Lucy.
When cross-examined by State Counsel Prescod, the witness said the accused lived with her when he was younger.
She maintained there was “no reason why he wasn’t by me”, stressing she had not “put him out”. She added he was living at a girlfriend in St Lucy.
Under further crossexamination, the woman said Williams did not make a report to her about being beaten while in police custody.
A nine-member jury of five women and four men has been hearing the evidence. Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell is presiding. (HLE)