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Cop killed 'Ching Sing' in self defense, says colleague
BY PAUL HENRY Co-ordinator — Crime/court desk
Thursday, March 07, 2013 | 12:05 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A police witness yesterday supported the evidence of two prosecution witnesses who testified on Tuesday that murder suspect Ian ‘Ching Sing’ Lloyd was attacking the police when he was shot.
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Kelly of the Ocho Rios Police Station in St Ann is being tried in the Home Circuit Court for Floyd's murder.
Lloyd was shot on July 29, 2010 and the incident was video-recorded, using a cellphone, and broadcast on television news. Kelly, along with other police officers, had gone on the scene to arrest Lloyd after receiving reports that he had just killed an elderly woman known in Buckfield as Miss Cherry.
Yesterday, Detective Terence Rowe testified that when he went on the scene he saw Lloyd sitting on the ground and throwing stones and bottles at Kelly and the other police officers who were trying to apprehend him.
Rowe said that Lloyd would use broken bottle to slash at the officers each time they approached him.
He said also that the enraged Lloyd at one point threw on the service vehicle, which he was driving.
Rowe testified further that a police officer on the scene used a baton to try and disarm Lloyd of the broken bottle but to no avail.
Kelly, he said, told him to drop the broken bottle but he refused and responded by saying, "A kill me waa kill somebody."
Rowe said he went to remove the vehicle when he heard an explosion. He said he took Lloyd to the hospital where he was pronounced dead minutes after.
Rowe reaffirmed his evidence under cross-examination from QC Delano Harrison, who appears along with QC K Churchill Neita and Renee Barker for Kelly.
On Tuesday, prosecution witnesses Shermaine Philpotts and Bernard Jones testified that Kelly had fired on Lloyd when Lloyd hit him with stones and threw a bottle at his face.
Philpotts said that she saw Lloyd holding his left shoulder after hearing an explosion.
Yesterday, Deputy Superintendent of the Major Investigation Taskforce, who investigated Lloyd's killing and who at one point supervised Kelly, said under cross examination by Neita that he found the accused cop to be "dedicated, hardworking, efficient, courageous and a responsible police officer".
He said he had never got a report about Kelly being a "hotheaded" police officer.
The trial continues today.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2MsT8MVnW
Cop killed 'Ching Sing' in self defense, says colleague
BY PAUL HENRY Co-ordinator — Crime/court desk
Thursday, March 07, 2013 | 12:05 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A police witness yesterday supported the evidence of two prosecution witnesses who testified on Tuesday that murder suspect Ian ‘Ching Sing’ Lloyd was attacking the police when he was shot.
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Kelly of the Ocho Rios Police Station in St Ann is being tried in the Home Circuit Court for Floyd's murder.
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Yesterday, Detective Terence Rowe testified that when he went on the scene he saw Lloyd sitting on the ground and throwing stones and bottles at Kelly and the other police officers who were trying to apprehend him.
Rowe said that Lloyd would use broken bottle to slash at the officers each time they approached him.
He said also that the enraged Lloyd at one point threw on the service vehicle, which he was driving.
Rowe testified further that a police officer on the scene used a baton to try and disarm Lloyd of the broken bottle but to no avail.
Kelly, he said, told him to drop the broken bottle but he refused and responded by saying, "A kill me waa kill somebody."
Rowe said he went to remove the vehicle when he heard an explosion. He said he took Lloyd to the hospital where he was pronounced dead minutes after.
Rowe reaffirmed his evidence under cross-examination from QC Delano Harrison, who appears along with QC K Churchill Neita and Renee Barker for Kelly.
On Tuesday, prosecution witnesses Shermaine Philpotts and Bernard Jones testified that Kelly had fired on Lloyd when Lloyd hit him with stones and threw a bottle at his face.
Philpotts said that she saw Lloyd holding his left shoulder after hearing an explosion.
Yesterday, Deputy Superintendent of the Major Investigation Taskforce, who investigated Lloyd's killing and who at one point supervised Kelly, said under cross examination by Neita that he found the accused cop to be "dedicated, hardworking, efficient, courageous and a responsible police officer".
He said he had never got a report about Kelly being a "hotheaded" police officer.
The trial continues today.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2MsT8MVnW