A supply truck driver, visibly annoyed, was recalled to the witness stand Wednesday within the homicide trial of Constable Noel Maitland, at present underway on the Residence Circuit Courtroom in downtown Kingston.
The motive force was referred to as again to make clear his involvement in occasions surrounding the July 12, 2022 disappearance of 24-year-old social media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson. Donaldson was final seen at Chelsea Manor Flats in St Andrew, the place Maitland lived. The constable faces prices of homicide and stopping the lawful burial of a corpse.
In courtroom, prosecutors performed audio recordings of telephone calls between Maitland and the driving force. The witness testified that he had secretly recorded the conversations after police seized his car, leaving him anxious and unsure.
He mentioned Maitland had requested him to move a sofa from the constable’s house to a carwash on Lyndhurst Highway, St Andrew. On the recordings, Maitland is heard asking if the driving force may transfer the furnishings elsewhere. Skeptical, the driving force requested:
“A who this? A di police youth this?”
Maitland replied: “Yea bro.”
The motive force later instructed the courtroom that his truck had been seized after the supply. Maitland, seemingly shocked, requested:
“Suh why dem tek away the truck?”
The motive force responded: “How me fi know? Police took the truck and all types of issues.”
At one other level, Maitland defined he referred to as as a result of he heard the driving force was in bother with the police. The witness insisted he solely needed readability:
“Mi nuh need no one contain me in no type of factor. I’m a giant man who works arduous. This factor is getting out of hand.”
The audio additionally captured Maitland laughing throughout components of the trade. The motive force often stumbled over names, even calling Maitland “Leighton.”
Earlier than leaving the stand, the witness expressed his exhaustion with the repeated courtroom appearances, telling prosecutors:
“Mi drained a oonuh now.”
He mentioned the summonses have been disrupting his enterprise.
The trial is about to renew Tuesday.
