Cops unable to find bullet, fragments retrieved from body of murder victim

Carlisa Matthews Jermaine Maynard

Police Constable Zameer Zakier was yesterday unable to produce to the court three pieces of a bullet and its fragments, which he said pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh extracted from the head of murder victim Carlisa Matthews.

Zakier told the trial of Jermaine Maynard, who is accused of murdering Matthews, his former girlfriend, that after making enquiries for the objects at the Brickdam Police Station, where the items had been lodged, he was told that they could not be found.

Maynard is on trial before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member mixed jury at the High Court in Georgetown. It is alleged that between December 31, 2013