By Samantha Simon
The trial of those charged with the killing of Bruce Greenaway continues today at 11:00am, even as prosecutors yesterday called into question the testimony of officers called to the witness stand.
The Prosecutor on the case grilled witnesses who took to the stand throughout the day’s proceedings.
The first witness, Corporal Isaac, who had been assigned to the Dockyard Police Station between 2009 and 2022, said that Greenaway’s body had been found lying on the shores of Indian Creek.
When asked of her knowledge of the area, she explained that while she was knowledgeable to some degree, due to having had to interact with nearby farmers who reported praedial larceny in the area, it was only to a minor degree.
Another witness told the court that she had witnessed Greenaway sitting in the back of a maroon pick-up truck, close to the tailgate, after hearing the sound of a vehicle going over a nearby speed bump, which was strange to her since it was after curfew hours.
She described the driver of the truck as a male wearing a defence force uniform, but she was unable to recall his exact appearance, or if there were any other individuals in the vehicle. She also disclosed that Greenaway was dressed in dark-coloured clothing at the time and did not appear to be distressed.
When asked about the direction the vehicle was heading in, she affirmed that she was able to see it approaching the Falmouth main road, but was not able to ascertain if it had turned towards the direction of the Dockyard Police Station or Indian Creek due to the distance from her home and the junction.
The final witness of the day was Corporal Walsh, who at the time was Acting Sergeant assigned to the special patrol group stationed at the coast guard base near the Dockyard.
In his testimony, he claimed that one of the officers on duty informed him that they had picked up an aggressive, drunk, male wandering the area, and they brought him to the coast guard base where another of the officers at the time recognised him. They then returned to patrol with said male, and dropped him off at the Cobbs Cross junction and instructed him to head home and not be out on the road again.
That was the last time Greenaway was reportedly seen alive.
Walsh confirmed that he had not recorded this incident in the police diary at the time, but had reported it to his superior officer.
Upon further questioning, the prosecutor was able to confirm that the maroon pick-up truck was in fact not a police-assigned vehicle but was in fact on loan to the defence force by the former commissioner of police, and was therefore their responsibility.
Furthermore, the prosecutor verified with Walsh that the defence force, and officers of the special patrol group, answer to different chains of command, thus confirming that defence force officers did not report to him, and he was not aware of their protocols or even the existence of a diary kept by the defence force.
After a bevy of pressing questions, the prosecutor accused Walsh of being untruthful, and followed up his challenge of the testimony by requesting that the reports submitted by officers other than the four accused in a prior internal inquisition, be submitted into evidence to allow for the corroboration of witness statements.
