WHEN the trial of TSU Cop Terrence Wallace for the murder of 17-year-old Agricola youth Shaquille Grant continued before the Demerara Assizes jury yesterday, Sgt. Jackson disclosed how Wallace had handed him a .38 revolver that was allegedly used in commission of the crime.The Demerara Assize jury trying Terrence Wallace for the alleged murder of Shaquelle Grant heard Inspector Phillip Browman say he had collected two statements from the accused policeman.
The Inspector said he was then serving as a sergeant at the Ruimveldt Police Station, and was attached to the Criminal Investigation Department. He said that having received a report of a fatal shooting which occurred on the 11th September, 2012 at Caesar Street, Agricola, East Bank, Demerara, he went to the scene at about 12.25 hrs on the said date, in company of Supt. Jessemy and other ranks.
He said he was assisting in the investigations.

According to him, on September 14, 2012, at about 08:00 hrs, he was present at the GPHC Mortuary when the body of Grant was identified by relatives. At about 08:40 hrs that day, Dr.Nehaul Singh performed a post-mortem on the body of Grant, after which he gave the cause of death. The body, he said, was later handed over to relatives for burial.

The Inspector said he later uplifted the original post-mortem report in regard to Shaquelle Grant, and he later turned same over to the custody of the Station sergeant for safe keeping.

On September 18, 2012, between 17:00 hrs and 18:00 hrs, he was present at the Le Repentir Cemetery and witnessed the burial of Grant, and he marked the grave by its location.

On 2nd October 2012, at about 08:15 hrs, he contacted one Terrence Wallace -– the accused — at TSU headquarters at Eve Leary, and there he told him he was charging him with murder committed on Shaquelle Grant contrary to Common Law.

He then read the particulars of the charge to him and took him to the Georgetown Magistrates Court to answer the said charge.

In October 2012, witness went to the Records Office at the GPHC, where he signed and uplifted an original medical certificate in favour of Romel Bollers of Agricola. That same certificate was lodged at the Ruimveldt Police Station.

The Inspector added that, during the investigations, he collected from Terrence Wallace two statements written by him, one dated 11/09/2012, which was written in his presence at Ruimveldt; and the other, which he collected from him on 14/9/2012, being a further statement which he also wrote in his presence.

The witness said that during the P.I., he uplifted the Original PM Report in regard to Grant, and the original medical certificate in favour of Romel Bollers and took them to the Magistrate’s Court, where they were tendered.

Mrs. Judith Mursalin, associated with Miss Narissa Leander, is prosecuting. Attorney-at-law Miss Sonia Parag is defending. Justice Navindra Singh is presiding at the trial, which was continuing yesterday when Sgt Jackson told the court that he used the .38 revolver that the accused had given him to discharge two .38 special ammunition and found the revolver to be a firearm in working order and a lethal barrel weapon.

The trial is continuing.

By George Barclay