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P.W. 17 Aaron Williams

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Sgt of Police No. 12 stationed at Road Town Police station.

On 19/1/77 I was a Cpl of Police. I am attached to the C.I.D.

On 19/1/77 I went to East End to the shop of the deceased at about 10:30

a.m. I had known the deceased for about 11 years. I know the shop well

too. Know accused.

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I went into the kitchen. There was a pool of blood on the floor of

the kitchen near to the door that leads to the bar. The pool of blood was

about 2 ft. wide and 11⁄2 ft. long. It was fresh blood. There were two

black lady's ' sandals and pieceb of paper in the area of the blood. The

paper was brown paperi The sandals were about 2 ft. aparta I also observed

a blue wooden bench about 2 ft long lying on its side in the centre of the

floor. I also observed a refrigerator, kitchen utensils and a stove

inside the kitchen. There was a window in the kitchen on the sea-side.

The windows were closed at the time. I opened the window and observed that

there was red stain which appeared to be blood on the ground outside. The 15

stains were fresh. The window was about 3 ft. high from the floor.

There was a brown paper bag containing a guiness stout outside the window

on the ground. There was also a plastic cup of ice-cream on the ground

outside.

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The brown paper bag was sindlar to those in the grocery section. There

was guiness stout in the regrigerator in the bar.

I went into the grocery. I saw a glass cabinet about 6 ft high. It

had shelves. It was opened. It contained plans and papers. They were

scattered inside. The plans had red stains which appeared to be blood.

I collected the plans and brought them to Road Town Police Station and

handed them over to P/C Samaroo.

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(Witness is shown plans)

These are the plans I took from the safe. (Witness points to the red stains)

(Marked M for identification)

There was a lady's hat on the floor in front of the cabinet. It was

turned up, and contained $2.00 made up of one 50% piece and 6 quarts. I

left the hat and money there.

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