Cop blanks on fingerprint testing at Lusignan massacre crime scene

James Anthony Hyles

Police Corporal Floyd Hossanah, who was one of the first officers to arrive at the scene of the 2008 Lusignan massacre, yesterday said that he could not recall dusting for fingerprints at the crime scene.

Hossanah, one of three a witnesses for the state to testify yesterday at the trial of James Hyles called ‘Sallie’, and Mark Royden Williams called ‘Smallie,’ who are accused of the 11 murders, told Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed jury in the High Court , he had been stationed at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in January 2008.

Acting on information received, he said he went to Tract ‘A’ Lusignan in the company of other ranks, including Sergeant Ewin Trotman and at Lot 20 Tract ‘A’ Lusignan he saw three motionless bodies. He recalled calling Trotman to photograph the bodies. He said that he