A witness yesterday recalled hearing a scream coming from the house owned by Samantha Bristol.
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Sometime later, said Rohan Whittington, he saw a black and yellow truck, which accused Roger Delisle Sealy usually drove, parked in the area and a red liquid on the road.
Whittington was testifying in Sealy’s murder trial when it continued in the No. 4 Supreme Court yesterday.
Sealy, 59, of Airy Cot, St Thomas, is accused of murdering Barbadian/American Samara Bristol, between November 16 and 21, 2021.
The witness said he was in the area with other people, on the night of November 16, when he heard a scream.
“I can’t really say but it sounded like it came from the house next to my aunt’s house. Samantha is the owner of that house. She comes and goes,” he told the court.
“After the scream, everybody decide to go home,” he said.
Whittington said he went home and, after speaking to someone, he decided he would go to his girlfriend’s house which was “one house away from my aunt and only one house away from Samantha”.
However, he said as he was walking there, he saw a black and yellow truck “cross the gap”.
“When I see it I turn back,” he said, adding he did not see anyone in the truck. “I just turn round and went back home. It was only me and I didn’t want to put myself in anything.”
He testified he knew the vehicle and had seen it before as Sealy drove it.
The witness explained he waited until the vehicle left the gap and then made his way to his girlfriend’s house.
“As I was going up the gap, I pass something red on the road. I ain’t stop to see what it was. To me it did look like something liquid in the road,” he said, adding police and fire officers then arrived.
When questioned by attorney Sian Lange, he said he did not know if accused Sealy owned the house occupied by Bristol, but “at that point” he was “staying with Samantha and helping Samantha to build the house”.
When questioned further, he said he was “not 100 per cent sure where [the scream] came from because we heard the scream only once”.
When re-examined by Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale, SC, Whittington said Sealy “was the man who was getting everything done”.
“He was putting up blocks, mixing concrete,” he told the court. (HLE)
