Blagrove (Oliver) v R.pdf - The Court of Appeal

“The next question to be determined apart from theidentification of the actual assailant outside is whether thepersons who Kirk and Tamara identified was Blagrove and'Screechi', at one time whether those persons, those names,the persons bearing those names, is the same person, OliverBlagrove, who has been charged and who is now beingcharged and who is now being tried.Kirk Miller's statement described his assailant as PaulBlagrove otherwise called 'Screechi otherwise called 'Onetime' and he said that Blagrove is the owner of a Hiaceminibus which plies the route between May Pen and SpanishTown and Mandeville. According to Mr. Miller, he, Miller, hasbeen conducting, the bus, Mr. Blagrove's bus, for aboutthree months and the bus, he said, is driven by a man nameDave. Mr. Miller's statement indicates that Paul Blagrove iswell known to him because they grew up together in theEvans and Lewis Street area and that they, in fact, used toplay football together.He tells us that Paul's mother has the name of Lucille andthat his father is deceased but was called Mass Jimmy. Hesaid that Paul Blagrove has two brothers, they are calledBanfoot and Jimmy. When Paul was about in his 20s, hemigrated, according to this statement, and about 6 yearsago or before the incident, he had returned to Jamaica.In a further effort to describe this person who he says isPaul Blagrove, he said in the statement that, Mr. Miller saysin his statement that Paul presently lives with his wife andother family members. Evan Street is very near to LewisStreet and according to Mr. Miller, he can stay where helives and look across into Lewis Street where Paul lives.Tamara Cooper in her statement speaks about 'Screechi'.She said that she recognized the voice that she heard to bethe voice of a man known to her as Paul, otherwise called'Screechi' and that it was 'Screechi' whom she saw holding agun in his hand pointing towards the house where she was.She said she knows 'Screechi' since February of that yearwhich is 2006 and that she would see him almost every twoweeks and that Kirk was working for 'Screechi' who owns abus name 'One time' and that Kirk was the conductor onthat bus.