BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE case of Che Gregory Spencer alias ‘Duck Foot’, who is accused of the shooting death of Jason ‘Worlo’ Marsham, began yesterday at the Basseterre High Court of Justice.
According to the prosecution headed by Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Paulina Hendrickson, Spencer and three other individuals went to Marsham’s Godwin Ghaut home on the morning of December 6, 2006 where the accused pulled out a gun and shot Marsham. He was transported to the Joseph N. France General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The deceased man’s sister, Rosalyn Marsham, was one of the prosecution’s witnesses and she told the court that she was present when the accused shot her brother.
She said while standing by the gate leading to her yard sometime between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. on that fateful day, she saw a white rental drove up the dirt road and back down. She added that four individuals were in the vehicle - the accused, Valmon ‘John’ Williams, Devon ‘Pacal’ Henry and Canta Bowry.
She told the court that when the vehicle went back down the road, it stopped in front of the shop which was operated by her brother’s girlfriend, Andrea Williams. That shop, she said, was located in the same yard with the deceased’s home.
“All four men jumped out of the vehicle. Pacal asked Andrea if Worlo is inside. I don’t know if she replied but I saw Jason come out of the gate,” the witness said and added that her brother and Henry were speaking while Bowry and Spencer were leaning on the rental and Williams went to the opposite side of the road and sat on a rock.
The witness told the court that she heard the accused say, “You have something in dah car for me an’ ah want it now”, after which he left where he was and went over to her brother.
“He (Jason) was still by Pacal talking by the blue car (parked in the vicinity of the shop). He [Spencer] put his hand in his [Jason] face. Jason tell him, ‘If you is a man, touch me car.’...Jason took up two bottles. He didn’t do anything with the bottles. I went in front my brother and tell him to behave because where they start, it ain’t there they end.”
The witness testified that the accused then hoisted his shirt and removed a gun with which he “gave my brother a shot to the head”.
“My brother was still going. He pushed me and he got the second shot...After he fell, I took a Carib bottle, went to the accused and said, ‘You see wah you do?’ He put the gun to my face and said ‘Miss, me ain’t got no war wid you.’”
After that encounter, as the witness recounted, Williams verbally chastised Spencer for what he had done after which he ran down the road.
She said Henry and Bowry however boarded the vehicle while Spencer fled the scene through the bushes.
“I went in front the car to try prevent it from going. Pacal was pushing me with the car and Leon (my cousin) pulled me out of the way.”
Marsham said attempts were made to call “911” but her brother was placed into the blue vehicle and driven to the hospital by his girlfriend.
Spencer’s defence counsel, Dr. Henry Browne, in cross-examining the witness, suggested to her that after her brother pushed her out of the way and Andrea Williams attempted to pass a gun to him. He also suggested that a struggle ensued between Andrea Williams, Spencer and the deceased during which the gun went off twice.
The witness did not agree with these suggestions.
She said that she did not see her brother alive again, but dead when she went to the funeral parlour to take the clothes in which he was to have been buried.
Other persons giving evidence in the case are: Dr. Reginald O’loughlin; Forensic Pathologist Stephen Jones; mother of the deceased, Jane Marsham; and Inspector of Police Keithley Bradshaw.
The case continues today at which point the final witness is expected to give evidence.
