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Police Detective murder…Accused to know fate today
Justice Dawn Gregory is today expected to sum up the murder trial of Desiree Jeffers, who was indicted for the unlawful killing of Police Detective Igris Bobb –Blackman.
Murder accused: Desiree Jeffers
After the summing up, the accused, 61, of Lot 622 La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, will know her fate.
Jeffers had shared a relationship with the former detective, whose body was found in a septic tank in January 2011.
However, Jeffers has since denied any knowledge of the murder.
“I never threatened anyone or killed Bobb- Blackman,” she stated.
Jeffers told the court that the relationship between her and the policeman ended, after she found out that he was gay and had the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
After calling in excess of seven witnesses to the stand, the State closed its case on Tuesday.
The State is being represented by Prosecutors, Natasha Backer and Mercedes Thompson, while Jeffers is being represented by Attorney–at- Law, Peter Hugh.
The body of Police Detective Bobb-Blackman was reportedly found wrapped and thrown into a septic tank, two days after he was reported missing.
Earlier in the trial, Police Detective Orlan Alleyne told the court that he had collected and packaged items of evidential nature from the crime scene, which included a multi-coloured green carpet and a sheet that had wrapped the body of the murdered police detective.
The soiled carpet and sheet were also tendered into evidence before the court.
The victim’s brother, Brentnol Bobb-Blackman told the court that he identified the body, which was pulled from the septic tank on January 20, 2011 to be his brother, who was missing for more than 24 hours.
He claimed he had reported his brother missing at La Grange Police Station on January 18, 2011. He also said that he had visited his brother at his Lot 622 La Parfaite Harmonie residence on numerous occasions, for religious functions among other things.
Bobb-Blackman told the court that it was as a result of a conversation he had with Gail Franker that he went in search of his brother at the said address. Franker was also in relationship with the policeman.
Dead: Igris Bobb-Blackman
“Myself, Gail Franker, police officers and the accused returned to the house and we checked the yard which included the septic tank again…I looked into the septic tank and saw a yellow lighter, a bottle of ‘Seven Seas’ tablets, a notebook and a part of a multicoloured green carpet at the top of the water in the septic tank…. Desiree Jeffers was there and she said ‘oh my God, oh my God I know nothing about this.”
Franker had also alleged that Jeffers had threatened to harm her and detective Bobb- Blackman.
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