Nassau, Bahamas – December 8, 2017 – The jury was hearing closing arguments in the case in the trial of three men, accused of killing a fourth grade teacher from Queen’s College in November 2015.
During their closing arguments, attorneys for the men – Makavelli Tinker, 17 at the time of the crime and Johnny Mackey stated to the jury that there is no evidence to convict, only confessions which the accused trio claims they were coerced into giving.
Earlier this week, Police are accused of stomping Johnny Mackey in the testicles in the interrogation room in order to get a confession from him in the murder of QC teacher, Joyelle McIntosh in November 2015. Mackey took the witness stand this week, and told Justice Bernard Turner that he was brutalized by officers, so much so that he became swollen. Mackey claims officers at CDU put a plastic bag over his head and that his life was threatened by the investigators; the 27 year old said Police wanted to use a rope to hang him.
The court also heard that co-accused Armando Sergeant, was allegedly given a proposal to finger the teenager as the shooter in a deal from Police. Sergeant said the investigating officer made the offer, even though he told them he knew nothing of the shooting. Both men claim they were beaten in order to get them to comply.
Mackey told the Crown’s prosecutor, Viola Barnett that it was not him laying in the road, that he was much older that the two accused and would not be hanging out with them and that his record shows, he was not into carjacking crimes; that the only thing he gets locked up for is drugs. Sergeant told the court he had an alibi, two – his mother and his girlfriend because he was at home at the time of the incident on Parkgate Road.
Sergeant said in the initial interview by Police he was not beaten, but when he was taken to CDU, he was beaten with a stick on both shoulders and was dragged across a rug.
He too says he was fish-bagged, biting through the first bag to get air to breathe, telling the court that the police then doubled the bag to coerce him into doing what they said.
Armando Sergeant’s attorney was today expected to give his close.
