BY PAUL HENRY Co-ordinator — Crime/Court Desk henryp@jamaicaobserver.com Friday, December 05, 2014
A witness testified in the Tivoli Gardens Enquiry yesterday that a soldier who participated in the May 2010 operation to apprehend Christopher 'Dudus' Coke confessed to her that he was the one who shot her, and that he apologised for doing so.
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| Nicola Bryce-Wilsonm shot by soldiers |
Nicola Bryce-Wilson, the eighth witness to testify in the televised enquiry, identified the soldier as 'Baby Shrek' and said that he made the confession two weeks after she was shot at her mother's home on Monday, May 24, 2010.
Bryce-Wilson testified that she approached the soldier at Darling Street in downtown Kingston and told him that her son said he was the one who shot her.
She said the soldier apologised and said that he was glad she didn't die.
But Bryce-Wilson was tackled by attorney Peter Champagnie -- one of the attorneys representing the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) -- about the fact that she didn't add the name of the person she said confessed to her in three previous statements until October this year.
But she said she didn't remember if she had put it in those statements.
At one point attorney Michael Lorne, who is representing the Office of the Public Defender, intervened in the cross-examination, saying that the Bryce-Wilson had testified that she had seen the soldier at various times in the community and that she got to know the names of the soldiers over time.
Resuming his cross-examination, Champagnie suggested to the witness that no soldier admitted to shooting her.
"You never was there, sir," she responded.
She, however, told Champagnie that she was unable to see who had shot her.
Following Champagnie's cross-examination, commission chairman Sir David Simmons questioned Bryce-Wilson on the issue of the name and she admitted that her son had told her the name Baby Shrek from as far back as late 2010. more
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