KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Noel Maitland homicide trial resumed within the Dwelling Circuit Courtroom this week, with a former Digicel court docket course of officer taking the stand to element how he assisted investigators in tracing phone data linked to the disappearance of social media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson.
The witness, who was employed to Digicel in July 2022, testified that the police had requested the telecommunications firm to offer name knowledge data for a number of cellphone numbers believed to be linked to the case.
He defined that, upon reviewing the data, one particular phone quantity appeared to have generated all of the calls made to the opposite numbers beneath investigation. Nevertheless, he instructed the court docket that he didn’t attain the stage of figuring out whether or not that quantity belonged to Maitland or another particular person.
Earlier within the proceedings, the court docket had been listening to testimony from a forensic analyst, who was in the course of cross-examination when the case was adjourned on Monday. That witness is predicted to return to the stand later this week.
The previous Digicel worker outlined to the court docket the steps he took when processing the police request, noting that he verified the dates and length of the requested knowledge earlier than continuing to extract the data utilizing a pc system accessible on the firm.
He stated the extracted knowledge was copied to 2 compact disks — one serving because the sealed exhibit copy and the opposite because the working copy.
The witness is predicted to proceed giving proof on Wednesday, after which the forensic analyst could also be recalled to face additional cross-examination from Maitland’s defence crew.
Maitland, a police officer and music producer, is on trial for homicide and stopping the lawful burial of a corpse in reference to the July 12, 2022 disappearance of his girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson.
Donaldson was final seen on the Chelsea Manor Residence complicated in St Andrew, the place Maitland lived. She was reported lacking on July 13, 2022.
