Defective photographs and misplaced evidence were among missteps by investigators highlighted yesterday when three police witnesses testified in the trial of four men accused of murdering 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris in her Robb Street home four years ago.
Crime scene photographer and analyst Lance Corporal Desmond Johnny attested to making several observations during his visit to the dead woman’s home after the murder. These observations included the presence of what had appeared to be blood on a chair in the living room as well as a hole in one of the bedroom walls reportedly made by a bullet.
He also stated that during his investigations he recovered two .38 spent shells on the