The Crown was on Tuesday forced to pause the testimony of its second witness in the trial of 25 alleged members of the so-called Tesha Miller faction of the Klansman gang, in relation to the robbery and murder of St Catherine man Zamari McKay.

The interruption followed a ruling by trial judge Justice Dale Palmer after defence objections to the prosecution’s method of eliciting evidence from a police constable on counts 28 and 29 of the indictment. Those counts accuse Carlos Williams, Jermaine Clarke and Owen Billings of knowingly facilitating McKay’s robbery and killing. McKay’s body was found on August 11, 2022, with his feet bound in a rubbish heap along the Lake’s Pen main road.

Ahead of the ruling, the prosecution, through that cop, had attempted to lead evidence detailing a series of events leading up to the disappearance and gruesome discovery of McKay’s body.