Adrian Fitzgerald Bradshaw, also known as Peter Bradshaw, has maintained that he was nowhere near the area police said illegal guns, ammunition and drugs were found on September 15, 2016.
Bradshaw, of Storey Gap, Codrington Hill, St Michael and co-accused Brian Barry King, of No 18 Hillside Princess Royal Avenue, St Michael are on trial in the No. 2 Supreme Court, jointly charged with possession of a .357 revolver, a .22 revolver, and a 9 mm pistol, along with 678 rounds of ammunition.
They are also facing charges of possession and trafficking 37.9 kilogrammes of cannabis.
According to the evidence given in court, the illegal items and contraband, which were inside feed bags and packed in the backseat of a pickup truck, were seized at No. 2 Blades Hill, St Philip. The court heard that King was held at the scene while Bradshaw escaped but was later apprehended.
But in a statement to the nine jurors hearing the evidence in his case before Justice Randall Worrell, Bradshaw said that on September 15, 2016, after tending to his animals, he left home around 3:30 p.m. and caught a pickup at the bottom of Storey Gap and proceeded to town. He said in town he took another pickup and ventured to the Gall Hill, Christ Church area.
“My reasons for going to that area is because I was trying to solicit the sale of some . . . rams and to purchase another ram . . . . I arrived there about minutes to 5 o’clock and I spend the rest of that time until the police came late in the night and arrested me.
“When the police arrived, they asked everybody to get on the ground. I proceed to do that and then they asked for the persons’ names. Upon giving my name as Peter Bradshaw, they say ‘this is the person that they are looking for and took me into custody’.
“I was nowhere in Blades Hill at the time I am accused of, neither did I travel in any vehicle to collect any bags to Storey Gap and go to Blades Hill at that time,” he told the jury.
The case, which is being prosecuted by Senior Crown Counsel Oliver Thomas, will continue on Thursday when Bradshaw is expected to call his witnesses, followed by King giving his defence.
Bradshaw is self-represented while King has Dr Lenda Blackman, Simon Clarke, and Ken Mason as his attorneys.
