Family wants life in prison for Pollard

The family of the late Onicka Gulliver want nothing more than for Andrew Harclyde Pollard to spend the rest of his life in prison for killing her.

In giving their victim impact statements today, her mother, sister and niece all asked Justice Randall Worrell to lock away Pollard for what he had done.

Back on October 17, 2020, a jury found Pollard of Mahaica Gap, Green Hill, St Michael, guilty of murdering Gulliver between March 11 and 14, 2014.

The partially nude and decomposing body of the 23-year-old Guyanese national was found in a bushy area at Vaucluse, St Thomas.

When her mother Jacqueline Gulliver-Gibbs took to the witness stand today she repeatedly called for justice to be served.

Under questioning from Crown Counsel Romario Straker, she said life had been difficult since the death of her oldest daughter.

“It has been really hard but we have to cope with it. I want justice. It is justice I need. Every day I does be thinking about her. It’s not easy, it’s not easy,” the distraught mother said.

“I want justice that’s what I want. I would love for justice. I want justice like life in prison because I can’t see my daughter again. I would love that to happen.”

She said her daughter’s death was felt especially during the Christmas season.

Zoey Gulliver, sister of the deceased told the court she never wanted to see Pollard’s face in public again.

She said the incident had been very traumatic for her and she had undergone therapy as a result.

“Really and truly we just want justice. We can’t see she ever again and I feel like he family shouldn’t ever have to see he ever again. I had to do therapy for like almost a year and some because everywhere I turn I just used to feel like he would be coming for me. I don’t know why, but I don’t feel safe with he out here in the same place as me,” she said.

Justice Worrell adjourned the matter until February 4, 2022.

Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale is appearing on behalf of the state while Sydney Pinder is representing Pollard.