Cops receive phone data from Digicel for gang trial

The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday indicated that the police have now received the long-awaited telephone data from telecommunications provider Digicel in relation to the case.

The prosecutor advised Chief Justice Bryan Sykes that he was informed that the package with data has arrived in the island and is with the police's Communication Forensic and Cybercrimes Unit. On Monday, the prosecution expressed that it had gleaned that the company was being reluctant to hand over the data. Uncertain of when the data would be forthcoming, the prosecution had asked the courts' registrar to prepare a subpoena.

However, the court was told that the subpoena, which was expected to have been served on Monday evening, was not issued. The prosecution had recently disclosed that the police were still awaiting telephone data from the country's two main service providers which they requested. Shortly after, FLOW Jamaica complied and submitted the data.

One of the two main witnesses, who are both ex-gang members, had testified that he had used three phones to secretly record conversations with alleged members of the gang. The phone were turned over to the police. The prosecution is seeking telephone data in respect to those recordings, call data and cell site information, and phones that were seized from the alleged gangsters.

The trial was yesterday adjourned to January 10.