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Accused present.
Jury present
MONDAY 10th OCTOBER 1977.
Hearing resumed at 9.15 a.m.
Waiting jury excused to Wednesday 18th October 1977 at 9.00 a.m.
P.W. 28 Robert Thomas
S&S
I am a registered medical practitioner in the B.V.I. I live at Mc--
Namara.
I am
I am the Acting Chief Medical Officer. I have been a doctor for
in the U.K., Canada, the Artic, Cruse Ship and Tortola.
in Tortola for 12 years.
25 years
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Know Accused. I saw him on the 19/1/77 at approximately 6.00 p.m. at
the Police Headquarters. He was lying quietly on the floor of his cell, but
when I asked to lie on the bunk bed so that I might examine him, he
willingly did so. I explained that I had been asked to examine him and to
take a blood sample for grouping. He had no objection to this and a
sample of blood was taken from his arm by me. He stayed quite still for
this procedure. I examined him physically and this revealed a well
developed body with multiple scratches on the back, shoulders and legs.
They occured from a sharp rather than a blunt instrument. The scratch
marks on the back were deeper than those on the rest of the body. These
might have been done with more force. These could have been consistent
with having been caused by finger nails. There was an abrasion of the left
foot and also on the back of the middle finger of the left hand.
abrasion is damage to surface of skin until it bleeds
like a scrape.
An
His blood pressure was normal. His pulse rate was rapid and the
patient was under some stress and tension. He understood every question
out to him by me and he answered. I did not find it strange for his pulse
to be rapid or for the exertion of stress and tension because of the
situation in which the patient found humself is being confinedin a cell
just having been arrested.
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I handed the blood specimen to the police before I left the Police
Headquarters.
(Witness is shown EXH. V.M.19) & (V.M.20)
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