22 Wounds

Gregory Adams died as a result of multiple stab wounds.

That was the finding of consultant pathologist Dr David Gaskin as he gave evidence in the trial of Shonette Vanessa Williams and Calvin Osbort Osbourne, who are accused of murdering 44-year-old Adams on October 18, 2020.

Giving evidence before the No 4 Supreme Court, the doctor told the 12-member jury and Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell that he found 22 injuries to Adams’ body. These wounds were discovered along his face, head, neck, right shoulder, arms, chest, left side and lower back, with the injury to the neck the most severe.
Also giving evidence in the case was Shieana Geoffroy, the daughter and sister of the accused duo.

Geoffroy recalled that on the morning of the incident, her mother arrived at their Lower Bridge Gap, Cave Hill, St Michael home, woke her and told her to come outside and bring her cell phone.

When she followed her, she saw a man in a vehicle who told her that he had found Williams walking along the road, crying and complaining that someone had hit her. Geoffroy’s mother asked her to take the man’s number in case she made a police report, and she did so.

Her mother then went back into the house, woke her brother Osbourne and went into the kitchen to ice her face which was “a bit swollen”. Williams then spoke to her son and headed into her bedroom.

Geoffroy said she subsequently heard her mother and Adams arguing, and when she went into the bedroom to check, she found Williams standing near the door while Adams was sitting on the bed, bleeding from his face.

She took her mother back to the kitchen and Adams came out of the bedroom, shouting that he had not done anything to her and that she had come home to make trouble over nothing.

“My mother said, ‘You hit me in the car, and then yall made me get out and walk home’ and he kept saying, ‘I ain’t do nothing to you’ and she said he was lying,” the witness said.

She said her mother then picked up two bottles and threw them in Adams’ direction but she could not recall them hitting him.

Geoffroy said Adams told her mother, “I will deal with you like how Pointer deal with you.”

“He went back into the bedroom and came back out and had a knife, a white-handled knife. They continued arguing, and he kept coming towards us . . . .I stepped forward, intending to stop him from coming forward. I tried to hold him back, and he pushed me out of the way, and my brother stepped in front of my mother to prevent Adams from getting to her, and that’s when the struggle started,” she testified.

However, the witness said she could not see what was happening because Adams was blocking her, and after realising her younger sister was in the hallway, she took her back into the bedroom so she could not see what was happening.

Five minutes later, she said, she walked towards the backdoor and found Adams on the ground, “gasping for air”. Her mother told her to call the ambulance and she did that and also called the police. When the paramedics arrived, they said there was no sign of life in Adams’ body.

Questioned by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale SC whether she saw either her mother or brother with a weapon, she replied, “No, please.”

Under cross-examination by Osbourne’s attorney Sian Lange, Geoffroy said her brother was not a violent person.

She said during the incident, she was scared as Adams was being “very aggressive” in walking towards them, adding that she believed her brother’s and mother’s lives were in danger.

During questioning by Williams’ attorney Peta-Gay Lee-Brace, Geoffroy explained that Pointer who Adams had mentioned was her mother’s ex-boyfriend who had burned down her house.

She also testified that the police had been called to their home several times due to Adams being violent towards her mother, as he was “controlling” and got “jealous easily”. She described the couple’s relationship as “toxic”.

Several other witnesses also gave evidence, including Adams’ son Nathan Wiltshire-Adams, Nicholas Walkes, who had picked Williams up and dropped her home that morning, Constable Stacia Spencer and Sergeant Roger Bullard.