Court hears police witness in money laundering case

The money laundering trial of Marlon Hosea Carrington got under way in the High Court this morning.

The Phillips Road, St Michael resident is facing a nine-member jury charged with engaging in a transaction involving the sum of BDS$57 000 being the proceeds of crime. Carrington pleaded not guilty before Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell to the offence which is said to have occurred on December 7, 2009.

He also denied having BDS$49 941 and US$36 being the proceeds of crime on October 13, 2013.

In his address to the jurors who were impaneled today, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale said the 2012 matter occurred “before” the 2009 case as police in October 2012 stopped the accused and the money was found. That, he said, led to
investigations which caused lawmen to “go backwards”.

Police Constable Stacia Spencer, an officer with the Forensic Scenes of Crime Unit, was the first to take the witness stand.

She told the court that she went on duty to the District ‘A’ Police Station on February 13, 2014 and took photographs of a motorcar and a quantity of money in Carrington’s presence after the items were pointed out to her by another officer.

Constable Spencer was cross examined by Ralph Thorne Q.C. the defense attorney who is appearing in association with Harlow Broomes.

She told the No. 4 Supreme Court that she could not say “how much money it was” that she photographed. She also could not recall if she was told the amount.

She said she only took pictures of the outside of the vehicle and did not take photographs of the inside or look in the car.

“I photographed what I was directed to. The photographs depict the motor car at the District ‘A’ Police Station,” she stated before the case was adjourned to continue tomorrow.