The first witness to take the stand, Detective Corporal Jennifer Rolle said on October 28, 2003 she, along with a team of officers, went to the morgue of the Rand Memorial Hospital where she collected two swab samples from a hip bone and another bone.
Officer Rolle said on November 20, 2003 she returned to the morgue where she received a tibia (lower leg) bone from a morgue official.
That skeletal remain was believed to have belonged to Jamaal Robbins, she said.
Farrington stands accused of the murder of Robbins and four young boys on Grand Bahama.
There will be a separate murder trial in relation to the four boys.
Taking the witness stand next Detective Constable Billy Ferguson said around 9:40 am on October 28, 2003 he, a team of other officers and Farrington travelled to an area about three miles east of the water tank on the Grand Bahama Highway, about one mile off the main road and then into a bushy area.
At that site, which he said the officers were directed to by Farrington, the officers collected the left foot of a blue and white pair of Nike tennis shoes; a multi-coloured Tommy Hilfiger shirt; a pair of faded blue shorts; a pair of menﾒs underwear; and four pieces of suspected human bone fragments, Officer Ferguson testified.
According to the officer, he and other officers went to the Queenﾒs Cove area around 2 pm the same day where they found and collected an inflatable mattress among discarded conch shells and other discarded items.
He said after returning to the Criminal Records Office he cut out, around 8 oﾒclock that night, three portions of the mattress that appeared to have bloodstains and also removed two other portions of the mattress as a control sample.
Officer Ferguson said the items collected from the two sites were then taken to the forensics laboratory on New Providence for analysis.
Yesterday the prosecution entered the tibia bone, tennis shoe, shirt, blue shorts and mattress as exhibits in the case.
The trial is scheduled to continue today.
By: Darrin Culmer, The Bahama Journal
