According to a statement read by a police officer in a Supreme Court murder trial yesterday afternoon, the defendant was not aware he had struck another man when he hit a wall while driving in October 2009.
Prosecution witness Sgt Terrel Forbes, of the Central Detective Unit, told a 12-member jury that on the early morning of October 10, 2009 – being in the Homicides division at the time – he had taken a statement and recorded an interview with Tyroe Francis Jr, the man accused of killing Jonathan Linden.
Francis faces the charge of murder and the prosecution alleges that on the night in question the accused intentionally drove his 2002 Hyundai Accent into the deceased, who died of his injuries as a result of the collision. However, in his statement to police, he mentioned no knowledge of striking someone until it was mentioned to him after he was arrested in the Central Police Station.
