Veldene Hinds died from a gunshot injury to the head.
That was the evidence of consultant pathologist Dr David Gaskin in Supreme Court No. 2A yesterday in the ongoing trial of Rasheed Sylvester Cox.
Justice Elwood Watts is presiding in the case where Cox, alias ‘Scobbie’, of Block 5E Ocean Road, Deacons Farm, St Michael, is accused of unlawfully killing Veldene Hinds on May 4, 2016. Hinds was in a vehicle which was driving along Barbarees Hill, St Michael on May 1, 2016, when she was shot.
Gaskin recalled conducting a post-mortem on Hinds on May 10, 2016, around 9:40 a.m., after her body was identified to him by her partner Winston Williams. His most significant finding, he said, was a one-centimetre injury to the right back part of the head. There was
a penetrating injury deriving from that one, through which brain tissue had protruded.
He later took a deformed copper bullet from inside the wound – which he handed over to police – and determined that Hinds’ death was a result of a gunshot injury to the head. The witness was not cross-examined.
Principal State Counsel Oliver Thomas and State Counsel Dr Zoe King are prosecuting, while attorney Shadia Simpson is representing the accused in the matter, which continues on Monday. (SD)
