UPDATE: Crown relying on video evidence against PO Starcey Huggins
According to the Magistrate, it was the video evidence that had given her away as she was seen looking in several directions which indicated that she was looking to see if anyone was coming as she was in the police vehicle communicating information to the targets of the police operation.
Huggins’ lawyer, in filing a no-case submission, had told the court that there was no operation carried out by the Police on the day in question; however, the magistrate did not find that to be factual based on the actions of Huggins.
Huggins is accused of ‘breach of trust’ by allegedly leaking information to persons herself and other police officers had targeted in an official operation of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).
Among other evidence presented during the trial was the video recording of Huggins believed to have been in conversation with the “targets” in which she was heard telling them "hey hey, Starcey, deh coming..... ayo owe meh big time..."
It was following that day of evidence led by the Crown that Attorney Patrick Thompson had filed a no case submission.
Huggins is to return to court on January 19, 2014.
See previous story published on November 20, 2014:
PO Starcey Huggins caught on candid camera
-Defense Attorney files no case submission
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - When female Police Officer Starcey Huggins appeared before Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo today November 20, 2014 as her breach of trust trial climaxed there were some head-nodding laughable moments.
Those moments were recorded on a device that was installed in a police vehicle that was said by the prosecution and their witness to have been a part of an operation called "Operation Combria," one which the defense showed never existed as was uttered from the month in the witness box by a police officer at an earlier stage of the trial.
The head nodding moments of laughter were aroused by the video where Huggins saw herself eating what appeared to have been chicken. It was the action of her mouth that spurred the laughable moments.
However the serious parts for the Crown was when she was observed fixing what appeared to have been a hands-free set saying to what was believed to be someone on the other end of a phone, “hey hey, Starcey, deh coming..... ayo owe meh big time...”
Earlier in the day a senior Digicel official took to the witness stand and confirmed that calls were made from the phone belonging to Starcey Huggins to two numbers which were not those of Digicel. They were established as CCT numbers.
As the Crown closed its case this afternoon the defense Attorney Mr Patrick Thompson in filing a no case submission sought to established that the Crown had failed to present a witness from CCT to properly identify the two phone numbers which the accused police officer had called during the 'so called' operation.
Countering Mr Thompson's submission Senior Crown Counsel Ms Leslie Ann Faulkner refreshed the court’s memory that during a police interview with the accused, she had admitted to knowing the numbers 49....1 to being that of one Cliff Williams. But there was another number believed to be that of one Mr Merry which during the interview Ms Huggins didn't admit to recalling.
The defense attorney accepted the position of the Crown as the one number was identified by Ms Huggins but turned his attention to a second ground for his 'no case submission' arguing that based on the evidence of the court it was never proven or present where in law there was an actual breach of trust according to law.
The Magistrate is to give her decision on the no case submission on December 5, 2014.
This news site will continue to follow this case.
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