THE defence handwriting expert in the Vybz Kartel murder trial said yesterday that he didn’t consider the element of forgery regarding a letter allegedly sent to the public defender by the key prosecution witness recanting a statement to the police.
He reiterated under cross examination by senior prosecutor Jeremy Taylor that he had had sufficient reason to conclude that the letter, which he later read during the trial, was written by the witness..
“Any man on a galloping horse would come to the conclusion I have come to,” said expert Karl Major, a retired senior superintendent of police, to much laughter inside the number two courtroom at the Home Circuit Court.
In the letter sent to the Office of the Public Defender on November 18, 2013, the writer outlined that the police had forced him to give a statement implicating Kartel and the other men in the August 16, 2011 murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams.
“I am [name withheld]. I’m the witness in the Vybz Kartel cause [case],” Major read from the letter. “The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the statement taken by the police [...] wasn’t willing because I didn’t go freely to the police station. more
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