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May 07, 2014 News
The carpet and sheet, in which the body of Police Detective Igris Bobb-Blackman was reportedly found wrapped and thrown into a septic tank, were tendered into evidence before the court yesterday, when the murder trial of Desiree Jeffers continued at the High Court.
Jeffers, 61, of Lot 622 La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara is on trial for the murder of the former Police Detective. The trial is ongoing before Justice Dawn-Gregory and a mixed 12-member jury.
When the case was called up yesterday, Police Detective Orlan Alleyne told the court that he had collected items of evidential nature from the crime scene, which included a multi-coloured green carpet and a sheet that had wrapped the body of the murdered police detective.
“I can identify the items because I packaged them in separate white rice bags and marked them…Both parcels bear police seals.”
Alleyne subsequently produced two white parcels, which he had allegedly collected at the scene of the crime to the court. The detective, however, noted that there was some damage to the markings on the outer layer of one of the packages.
After the parcel was examined by the members of the jury and Defence Attorney, Peter Hugh to ensure that the seal was intact, the soiled multi-coloured green carpet was then presented to the open court. A subsequent police witness, Sergeant Paul Wintz told the court that he visited the scene of the crime and saw when the body of detective Bobb-Blackman was being pulled from the septic tank. According to Wintz, when he arrived at the scene police investigators had already found the body. “It was floating in a septic tank.”
However, while under cross-examination by the defence, Wintz agreed that the body was partly submerged.
“It was about two feet away from the opening of the septic tank…the carpet was easily visible.”
State prosecutor Mercedes Thompson later called Brentnol Bobb-Blackman to the stand.
The witness identified himself as the brother of the deceased. He claimed he had reported his brother missing at La Grange Police Station on January 11, 2011. He also said that he had visited his brother at his Lot 622 La Parfaite Harmonie residence on numerous occasions, for religious functions among other things.
Bobb-Blackman told the court that it was as a result of a conversation he had with Gail Franker that he went in search of his brother. The witness said that he was accompanied by two police officers. They went to the La Parfaite Harmonie residence.
“I called for Desiree Jeffers and there was no answer….we went into the yard, the house was locked. We checked around the yard including the septic tank area but we did not find anything…We returned to the police station.”
Bobb-Blackman said a search party later returned to the residence.
“Myself, Gail Franker, police officers and the accused returned to the house and we checked the yard which included the septic tank again…I looked into the septic tank and saw a yellow lighter, a bottle of ‘Seven Seas’ tablets, a notebook and a part of a multicoloured green carpet at the top of the water in the septic tank…. Desiree Jeffers was there and she said ‘oh my God, oh my God I know nothing about this,’” the witness recalled before pointing to the accused and stating “that is Desiree Jeffers.”
The man said that he later identified the body to be his brother, Igris Bobb-Blackman, before police cordoned off the area and declared it an official crime scene.
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