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Another neighbour testifies

Jan 28, 2010 News

The preliminary inquiry into the murder of Gertrude Edwards continued yesterday before Magistrate Nigel Hawke, at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court. On trial is Edwards’s reputed husband, Gladstone Williamson.
Yesterday Edwards’s neighbour, Yannick David, took the witness box. He gave evidence about Edwards’s condition after he was summoned by another neighbour to assist the woman.
He was crossed examined by the accused Gladstone Williamson, who is representing himself.
The preliminary inquiry started earlier this month and to date Edwards’s daughter Kerry-Ann Edwards and her niece Samantha Charles gave evidence in chief about what transpired on the day in question.
The two children were also allegedly attacked by Williamson. They sustained injuries and had to be hospitalized.
The woman’s sister, Jane Benn, also gave evidence about a post mortem examination which she witnessed.  The matter was adjourned until next week for witnesses to be summoned.
According to neighbours, the 31-year-old victim had moved out of her Angoy’s Avenue home to escape abuse at the hands of Williamson.
The woman collapsed and died on a neighbour’s front stairs after a vicious attack.
Edwards had worked as a vendor at the New Amsterdam stelling. At the time of her death she had been occupying an apartment at Ithaca with her daughter Kerry and niece, Samantha, as well as two smaller children she had borne for Williamson, six-year-old Gladstone Jr. and five-year-old Althea. The two small children were unharmed.

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