IN JAMAICA: Doctor, gangster connection Witness testifies physician wanted $250,000 to extract bullets from injured gang leader

The second witness in the Uchence Wilson trial testified yesterday that a medical doctor in Manchester wanted $250,000 to extract bullets from the body of the alleged gang leader who was shot by the police during a robbery in Guy's Hill, St Catherine.

BY RACQUEL PORTER Observer staff reporter porterr@jamaicaobserver.com Friday, March 29, 2019

The second witness who, like Witness One, is a former member of the gang, testified yesterday via videolink from a remote location, giving details of a number of robberies in which he said he participated.

The witness is being referred to as Witness Two by the Jamaica Observer because of a court order instructing that all witnesses remain anonymous.

During his evidence-in-chief, Witness Two testified that when they were unable to get in touch with doctors in Linstead, St Catherine, who he said would normally tend to them, they contacted a doctor in Mandeville who agreed to do the operation.

He said he drove ahead of the vehicle that carried the injured Wilson.

He said when they arrived in Mandeville, the doctor, during negotiation, told them that what they were requesting was serious and that he could lose his “work”.

Witness Two said Stephenson “Slim” Bennett and Shontal Gordon, who is the mother of Wilson's child, told the doctor that the price was too high and that they only had $90,000. The witness told the court that the doctor later agreed to the amount. However, he was unable to remove a bullet from Wilson's back.

According to the witness, the doctor told them that Wilson needed an X-ray to remove the bullet. He said they subsequently returned to Commodore in St Catherine where Wilson and Gordon lived.

He told the court that he did not participate in that robbery, but said “Slim” told him how Wilson was shot. He also said Wilson, otherwise known as Terrence, told him when he recovered from his injury.

“Slim say him deh round a di side of the house and see the police light a come and call Terrence. Him say as him call Terrence the police dem come round and Terrence buss two shots to scare weh the police them, but the police shoot back, so him jump the fence and run 'cause him never know say Terrence get shot,” Witness Two testified.

According to the witness, Bennett told him that it was after he (Bennett) had run into heavy foliage that another man told him that Wilson was shot.

“Him bring him down a him house and call me to take him out of the area,” he continued.

Witness Two also gave Wilson's account of the shooting.

“Him jump the fence. Him and Slim go over inna di yard after them hold the people dem, the lady in the house. Him coming through the front door, Slim was at the side. Him saw a light come up in the yard look like police so him was trying to leave and same time him phone ring and the police them shoot towards the phone light. Him a try jump the fence. Him say a right there so him get shot, when him a try jump the fence, and the gun drop from him. Him say right there so di bwoy dem shot him 'cause Slim never did a cover the front good,” Witness Two testified during the morning session. more