Murder trial adjourned as accused gets tested for COVID

An adjournment has been given in the trial of Conroy Anderson Ramsay who is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend nine years ago.

Hearing of the matter will resume next Tuesday before Justice Randall Worrell and a 12-member jury.

When the case against the Godding Road, Station Hill, St Michael resident was called on Friday, his attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens informed the No. 2 Supreme Court that Ramsay had made an appearance in court in the morning but was exhibiting flu-like symptoms and had gone to get tested.

She then requested the adjournment which was granted by the judge.

Ramsay is charged with killing 24-year-old Kimberley Hinds, the mother of his child, on March 17, 2013.

Evidence already given in the case revealed that Hinds’ naked body was discovered on the floor of her living room by her mother and sisters that afternoon.

Lead investigator Inspector Winston Goddard told the court on Wednesday that Ramsay, who voluntarily turned himself into police the following day, had said that he and Hinds were arguing and fighting at her Rock Hall, St Thomas House in the wee hours of March 17.

“I went up there to talk to her and things went bad and we end up fighting and she hit her head on the ground and I get frighten and I left,” he told police.

Director of Public Prosecutions Donna Babb-Agard Q.C. is prosecuting the case along with Crown Counsel Kevin Forde.