The mother of murdered businessman Oriley Small took to the witness stand on Tuesday to deliver testimony at the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against his accused killer Morris Prince.
The woman, Petal Boston, was led in evidence by police prosecutor Stephen Telford, while cross-examination was declined by Prince’s attorney, Mark Waldron. Also testifying yesterday was Police Constable Christopher Persaud, who is a police photographer attached to the Criminal Investigation Department.
The PI will continue on August 16.
Prince was arraigned on the charge in March of this year. The charge read to him alleged that he murdered Small on March 19, at Smyth Street, Werk-en-Rust.
Prince was one of two suspects who were taken into custody for the crime.
Reports stated that Small was shot multiple times shortly after entering the yard of his Smyth Street residence.
A man dressed in a black hoodie was said to have been seen exiting the premises after the shooting, heading in the direction of Princes Street.
That fatal shooting was the third time Small had been targeted by gunmen.
The first occurred in 2009, when he was one of five persons shot at a football match at the National Gymnasium, and the second in 2012, at the National Cultural Centre, where a football tournament was being played.
