Murder accused Richan Robert Walrond told police that some men hatched a plan to rob Andre Hinds because “he got nuff money and does sell nuff drugs”.
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The accused further told police the gun he was holding went off when he was struggling with the man in his house.
This was the testimony of Inspector Darby Griffith who was in the No. 3 Supreme Court yesterday.
Walrond, of Back Ivy, St Michael, and Romario Renaldo Broomes, of Checker Hall, St Lucy, are accused of murdering Hinds, of Northumberland, St Lucy, on August 25, 2016.
Inspector Griffith said he saw Walrond at the Major Crime Unit at the Glebe Police Station on September 2, 2016. He said the accused declined to have an attorney present.
Griffith said he told the accused that investigation showed that he was one of two who shot Hinds and asked him what he could say.
He said the accused replied: “Yeah, I know about that. Me and Bigs went up there.”
Griffith said the accused then dictated a statement in which he spoke of going to a man’s house where he was “breezing and smoking for the whole day” with other men.
Pretty-eyed fellow
He said a “brown skin, pretty-eyed fellow was to buy weed from the same fellow, the deceased, and he was telling we he [the deceased] got ’nuff money and he does sell ’nuff drugs and we could eat a food”.
The accused dictated that the conversation about the deceased continued and “they was there planning to rob the same man”.
Walrond’s statement continued that he then got a gun “from the same dark fellow because he is who had it”.
“He was asking Bigs if he could remember the road that he had taken just now. Bigs say yeah and then me and Bigs get a drop up the road by the top of the gap from the block”.
They walked through some bushes and up to the house, pulled the door and “it broke”, the statement said.
“Then me and Bigs went in the house. Whereas I saw a woman and a man. I pointed the gun at the man and I ask him where the money is and weed is?” the statement said.
“Then me and him get into a scuffle in the yard. It start by the back door but we end up in the yard. Bigs then come by the back door and started shooting.
“Me and the guy was scuffling. The guy step back off at the back door and I step back off with him still holding him and the man was trying to get the gun from me while I was scuffling inside the house.
“Whereas the gun went off and he get shot. The woman take up the weed and give we and the money,” the lawman read.
Walrond’s statement continued that Bigs and he then left through the front door and went back across the pasture.
There, they saw the “brown-skin, pretty-eyed fellow” and a dark man, and all four of them left in a four-by-four vehicle.
The accused man’s statement further revealed they went to a man’s house where they divided the money and marijuana. He then went home.
Inspector Griffith said he then asked the accused what was meant by “eat a food”.
He said the accused replied: “When he said ‘eat a food’ he meant to rob the guy.”
The lawman said the accused admitted the weapon, a .40-calibre gun, was his.
The accused further said that the man who had given it to him “would have to get it from [another man] ’cause I take it and give it to [that other man] a day”.
Griffith said the accused admitted he did not know the weight of the marijuana but “the money was four grand and some or five grand and some”. (HLE)