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Court hears testimony of mother being found dead at home nine years ago

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The naked body of the late Kimberley Hinds was discovered by her mother and sisters on the afternoon of March 17, 2013, following a telephone call from the young woman’s concerned landlord.

This evidence was revealed on Tuesday on day one of the murder trial of Conroy Anderson Ramsay, of Godding Road, Station Hill, St Michael who allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child.

Ramsay is accused of murdering the 24-year-old mother of two – a charge to which he pleaded not guilty when he was arraigned before Justice Randall Worrell commenced in the No. 2 Supreme Court.

One of the witnesses to give evidence before the jury of seven women and five men was Dwayne Skeete who went out with Hinds the night before she was found dead.

He said they were not in a relationship but she had invited him to a house party at Kirtons, St Philip which they attended for about three hours with two other friends.

Skeete said when they left the party, he and Hinds drove in separate cars to her house in Rock Hall, St Thomas where he spent about 45 minutes. During that time, they had a drink, talked and had sex.

Skeete said while they were being intimate, Hinds’ phone rang three times, sometime around 3:15 a.m. on March 17, 2013 . The first time, he said, she did not answer. She answered the second and third calls, but on that last call she put the phone on the side of the bed and they continued to have sex. Skeete said that move made him “uncomfortable”.

During that time, Skeete said he heard a noise which “made me uneasy” and he subsequently saw “a shadow” in the window, noting that while he knew it was a person he did not see anyone.

He told Hinds what he had seen and heard and, according to him, she put back on the dress she previously wore and went out on the patio. Skeete said he also got dressed and met Hinds by the front door and after a short conversation, he left.

“Everything was normal at the time,” Skeete said as he answered questions posed by Director of Public Prosecutions Queen’s Counsel Donna Babb-Agard who is prosecuting the case with Crown Counsel Kevin Forde.

Skeete said he arrived home between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. During that time, he said, Hinds had messaged him around 3:45 a.m. He responded but there was no further message from Hinds.

He said that on reaching home, he saw “a scrawl” on his car which had not been there previously.

Another witness, Romeo Smith, Hinds’ landlord, testified that later that morning, he was having drinks with friends at a nearby shop when he saw the lights on outside the woman’s house around, “11 going 12” which he described as “unusual”.

“The lights don’t be on so late,” he told the court, adding that he went to the house, knocked and called for Hinds who he knew from a toddler but got no response. “That was unusual, so I called her mother.”

Smith said he then went home and returned sometime after 2 p.m. to open the house for the deceased’s mother, Vinette Hinds.

The mother also gave evidence today. She said after getting the call from Smith and being unable to reach her daughter, the last of five children, she went to the house.

“When I get to the house, I saw her car was there and the outside light was on. I knocked and I didn’t hear her,” said the mother who added that one of her other daughters also tried to look through a window but did not see anything. She then called Smith to open the house.

“When I open the curtain, my daughter was lying on the front mat . . . . The residence was very disturbed, the furniture was scattered all over the house . . . black stuff on the floor and she lying naked on the floor,” the emotional woman recalled. The mother said she subsequently called the police and “closed the door and sat in the gallery in a chair”.

She described her daughter’s relationship with Ramsay as a “rocky, on-and-off thing” in which they did “a lot of bickering”.

Katrina Hinds also said her deceased sister’s relationship with Ramsay was “not a peaceful” one as they were always arguing.

She said when she went into the house with her mother, her sister was on the ground on her back and she saw, among other things, scratches on her knee.

“I remember shouting for her . . . standing over her calling her name . . . . It was very emotional,” she added.

The sister and landlord both stated that Ramsay previously resided with the deceased at the rented property.

Smith said: “He lived in and out. Sometimes he there, sometimes you miss he . . . . He wasn’t there regularly.”

Also giving evidence was retired Sergeant Jerry Boyce who told the court that sometime after 7 a.m. on March 17, 2013 Ramsay went to Holetown Police Station asking for a police escort to the home of his ex-girlfriend to collect his belongings.   

When they arrived at the residence to which the accused directed them, “The house was closed”. Former officer Boyce said he entered the gallery, called out several times and  knocked on the door, but got no response and informed Ramsay that he would have to return later. The officer also testified that the accused, who had driven to the location in his own car “appeared calm to me.”

State witnesses will continue giving evidence in Ramsay’s murder trial on Wednesday. He is being represented by attorney-at-law Angella Mitchell-Gittens.

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