Kartel, Shawn Storm called Lizard day before murder, court told

Barbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

A schedule of mobile phone calls which was presented at the murder trial of entertainer Vybz Kartel disclosed that the day before Clive 'Lizard' Williams went missing, phone calls allegedly attributed to the entertainer were made to a mobile phone said to be Williams'.

The Crown is alleging that on August 16, 2011, Kartel, real name Adidja Palmer, and four co-accused beat Williams to death at the artiste's Havendale house in St Andrew over two missing guns. Williams' body was never found.

Detective Corporal Shawn Brown, who is attached to the Communication, Forensic and Cybercrimes Unit at the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), said yesterday that he prepared a schedule of the phone calls and cell-site location.

Brown referred to phone numbers, the length of the calls, the cell-site location where some calls were made or received, and the date.

SEVERAL CALLS

The evidence indicated that calls were made on August 14, 2011 and August 15, 2011, at times between Kartel, accused Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell, Williams, and the main witness in the Crown's case.

Brown's schedule attributed a phone number to Kartel as making and receiving calls from Williams. One of Kartel's alleged calls to Williams the day before he went missing lasted for four minutes and 29 seconds.

Several calls attributed to Campbell were made to Williams, and Corporal Brown said calls attributed to Williams were also made to Campbell.

Yesterday, Brown presented text messages which suggested that Campbell had sent text messages that Williams ran away.

A text message dated August 18, 2011, allegedly sent by Campbell, stated, "ye but mi waaan know wah dem run weh fa if dem nuh do nothing."

In another message later that day, Campbell allegedly wrote, "u hear dat lizard ran away".

A text message which was allegedly sent from Williams' cell phone at 7:28 p.m. on August 16, 2011 to his girlfriend stated: "please hurry up mi soon reach babes."

The Crown, represented by prosecutors Jeremy Taylor and Leighton Morris, is alleging that Williams wrote text messages to his girlfriend the day he went missing.

On Monday, the jury was presented with text messages in which Williams was allegedly pleading with his girlfriend to call the police as he was on his way to Havendale, St Andrew, to meet with Kartel and feared for his life.

Kartel is charged jointly with Campbell, Kahira Jones, Shane Williams, and André St John.