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Mario Deane was beaten while in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station lockup in Montego Bay, St James on August 3, 2014, and died three days later at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay.
If all goes well, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kevin Francis will on Wednesday morning return to the stands to give testimony in the trial of the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane, which started in the in the Hilary Session of the Westmoreland Circuit Court, last week.
The trial was obstructed on Monday after DSP Francis, who commenced his testimony on Friday, was unable to continue and called in sick.
When he took the stands on Tuesday (yesterday), the deputy superintendent still showed signs of illness as he explained the procedure for prisoners in need of medical care.
The matter was subsequently adjourned prematurely on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Deane’s mother, Mercia Fraser, was called to the stand to give evidence.
Deane, 31, was beaten while in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station lockup in Montego Bay, St James on August 3, 2014, for possession of a ganja ‘spliff’, and died three days later at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay.
The case has been postponed many times since the three police personnel’s initial appearance in the St James Circuit Court on September 18, 2018.
There has been a major challenge to get a jury empanelled for the case, which has been set for trial for some time.
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