A police witness in the Michelle Coudray-Greaves murder trial told the St James Circuit Court yesterday that when she executed a search warrant at the home of the accused interlining, Ivan Taylor, she found items of women's clothing and jewellery.
"I searched the house in Mr Taylor's presence and viewing at all times, and I recovered from the house a red lingerie night-looking dress, orange underwear, a green rag, and also a grey jewellery box containing a knob earring and a sleeper earring," Detective Corporal Debbie Mitchell testified in court.
"Was this male or female underwear?" defence attorney Trevor Ho Lyn asked, in cross-examining the witness.
"It was female underwear," Mitchell clarified.
"Was that the only woman's clothing you found there?" attorney Ho Lyn asked.
"Yes, sir," said Mitchell.
Meanwhile, Detective Constable Wayne Foster testified that he had conducted crime-scene investigation of the site where Coudray-Greaves' burnt remains were found in a cane field Double Sided Fusible Interlining, 11 days after she went missing on June 1, 2012.
"I was shown the back section of a cane field, where I was also shown burnt human remains. I photographed the remains, after which they were placed into a white bag, sealed inside the bag, and an evidence tape was placed on the zipper of the bag," Foster told the court.
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Foster's testimony yesterday came after a civilian witness had told the court on Tuesday that he had seen Taylor's motor vehicle leaving the cane field on the night Coudray-Greaves had gone missing Twill Weave Interlining.
The case, which has seen testimony from 17 witnesses since it began last Wednesday, April 30, will continue in the St James Circuit Court this morning. Among the witnesses who have testified so far are Coudray-Greaves' mother, Trinidadian politician Marlene Coudray; a telecommunications expert; a medical expert from the Cornwall Regional Hospital; nine police witnesses; and five civilian witnesses.
