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Accused killer’s caution statement admitted

Dec 10, 2008 News

Murder accused Delon ‘Fatboy’ Reynolds’s caution statement was yesterday read to the jury and tendered into evidence, as the trial into the murder of self-confessed death squad informant George Bacchus continued.
Retired Detective Charles Alleyne, who witnessed the caution statement, took the stand yesterday and read the contents of the statement, in which Reynolds said that he climbed through a window to Bacchus’s room and shot him three times.
In the statement, Reynolds said that funeral parlour co-owner Debra Douglas offered him $200,000 to kill Bacchus, and he accepted. Douglas was the reputed wife of the man accused of murdering Shafeek Bacchus, who was killed a few months before George Bacchus.
The caution statement also said that Reynolds was given a gun on June 23 and that he hid it at a Chinese restaurant in Garnett Street. The statement continued that Reynolds retrieved the weapon the following night to do the shooting.
Reynolds also called Bacchus names such as ‘Jumbie’ and others. He was Bacchus’s handyman and lived in a shack in the yard.
Detective Inspector Trevor Reid was the officer who took the caution statement, but he is now deceased.
Alleyne’s cross examination by defence counsel Peter Hugh will continue today.
Last week Monday, the second voir dire (trial within a trial) in this matter concluded.
Earlier this month, the trial into this matter was aborted because one of the jurors was related to a witness.
Bacchus was found dead in bed at his Lot 76 Princes Street home on June 24, 2004, after he had made bombshell revelations about a death squad operating in the city, for which he said he once gathered information.
Funeral parlour co-owner Debra Douglas and her nephew, Fabian ‘Fabie’ Jessop, had been jointly charged with Reynolds for Bacchus’s murder, but they were subsequently freed due to insufficient evidence.
State prosecutors are Dianna Boyan, Judy Latchman and Zamilla Ally.

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