THE cop who was the lead investigator into the alleged robbery and murder of St Catherine man Zamari McKay, supposedly at the hands of a faction of the Klansman Gang, was on Wednesday taken to task for being “negligent” after he admitted that he gave no thought to whether DNA might have been left by the perpetrator/s on items of clothing, a piece of which was used to bind the feet of the dead man.

The cop, a detective sergeant, who was taking the stand for the second day in a row during his evidence in chief, testified that on August 11, 2022, he travelled to a section of the Lakes Pen main road in St Catherine where he saw a body lying face down in an “illegal dump area”, with the feet bound, and with gunshot wounds.

That man, said to be McKay, was, according to the Crown, a victim of the accused Carlos Williams, Jermaine Clarke, and Owen Billings, who have been indicted on counts 28 and 29 of the charging document for “knowingly facilitating” McKay’s robbery and killing. The three are among the 25 accused now being tried for crimes committed by the so-called Tesha Miller faction of the Klansman Gang.