Inspector: No evidence of interaction between accused, deceased

The lead investigator in the Oluremi Young murder case testified on Monday that there was no video or forensic evidence showing any interaction between Young and the man accused of killing him, Danny Husbands.

Husbands, of Ferniehurst, Black Rock, St Michael, is charged with the September 4, 2020 murder at Oistins Bay Garden.

During cross-examination, Husbands’ attorney Senior Counsel Angella Mitchell-Gittens questioned Inspector Wayne Stewart on whether any tests were done on the blood taken from Young and a knife which had been given to police by a female during the investigations. The officer said that while the items had been sent to be tested, he had not received any information that they had been.

“There is no forensic evidence in this matter?”
Mitchell-Gittens asked, to which the inspector replied: “No, there is not”.

The defence lawyer also asked the police witness whether any of the videos which CCTV in the area captured showed any interaction between the deceased or the accused or how Young received his injuries.

“None of the videos show it,” Stewart answered.

The lawyer then queried: “The videos that we saw show the accused going under the area of Tipsy Bar, the deceased going under the area of Tipsy Bar where several other persons are also present?”

The policeman responded in the affirmative.

The senior counsel then questioned him about information gleaned from witnesses: “Am I correct that not one person interviewed places a knife in the hands of Danny Husbands?” 

Inspector Stewart replied, “That is correct, Ma’am”.

In giving his evidence earlier, Stewart told the court that on December 28, 2020, he executed a warrant at a woman’s home to search for a knife. Husbands was at the house at the time. When the police officer told him about the knife, he replied, “I do not know about no knife. You got the wrong man.” 

No knife was found during the search.

During his interview at the station, Husbands admitted that he was at Oistins Bay Garden on September 4, 2020, and that he had a bucket with several items in it, including a knife.

Asked whether he and another man had a dispute during his time in the area, he said, “I ain’t got nothing to say.”

The accused also told the police that when he left, people were still partying and drinking and that later, someone told him that a person had died up there.

Husbands was also asked what clothes he had on that day and he replied that he had worn a red shirt and blue pants. Asked where they were, he told the officers that he had thrown away a lot of clothes since then, and those could be among those that he put in the garbage.