–as hearing in 2015 murder of Jamaican national continues

TOSHAO Ecliffe Lindie of Kimbia Village recounted seeing the partially clothed, bullet-riddled body of Jamaican national, Michael Dillon moments before police destroyed marijuana plants at Kimbia Creek, on the Berbice River on April 27, 2015.

Lindie was testifying before Justice Simone Ramlall and a majority female mixed jury at the Berbice Assizes where Quacy Walker is indicted with murder.

The accused pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Tuesday.

Lindie recalled that after receiving information, he contacted the Commander of the Berbice Police Division before going to see Jean Lindie, wife of the deceased.

He said that on the following day, at approximately 02:30hrs, he, Mrs. Dillon and her two sons, aged aged 10 and 12, and a neighbour went to Kimbia Creek by motorised boat.

He said that along the way, they passed a boat carrying the accused, his girlfriend, his younger brother and some other persons.

“When I arrived at Michael Dillon’s camp,” he recalled, “I saw drops of blood. I subsequently saw the body of Dillon, called ‘Jamaicie’. He was facing upwards, dressed in a pair of shorts, and his chest had a lot of holes, which appeared to be gunshots.”

Later that day, after contacting the officer-in-charge of Kwakwani Police Station, Lindie said he went to the home of the accused’s mother, where one Braithwaithe and Leroy Hope were arrested and taken to a building in proximity to the health centre.

Thereafter, he retraced his path and also arrested Akeem Simon.

On April 29, the police arrived and the detained men were handed over to them.

Responding to Defence Counsel Charlyn Artiga’s line of questioning, Lindie said he last saw Dillion on March 10, 2015. He said that besides being the only person in the area who farmed, Lindie said Dillon not only cultivated marijuana, but also had a kitchen in which he grew pumpkins.

Meanwhile, Detective Assistant Superintendent Orin Cameron told the court that he’d led a party of policemen to the scene of the murder at Itcholoko Creek, on the Kimbia River, and that on arrival saw spent shells alongside the body of the deceased.

He said that further searches revealed a marijuana farm with plants measuring two to six feet in height, all of which were later destroyed. He said that Dillon’s body, which had by then been so badly decomposed, was subsequently buried in a shallow grave.

Other witnesses were firearm and ammunition examiner Corporal Floyd Hosanna and police photographer and Crime Scene Examiner Sergeant Leon George.

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Murder accused, Quacy Walker