A retired police investigator in the Klansman Gang Trial, says the sole female defendant Stephanie ‘Muma’ Christie, tried to orchestrate a shoot out between himself and another detective.
The 30-year police veteran says he’d befriended Christie after she offered him a $100,000 bribe in exchange for releasing alleged gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, from police custody.
He says realising Christie was an influential gang member he didn’t charge her and used her as an inside source as the police gathered evidence against the alleged gang.
He says in a cellphone conversation, Christie gave him a tip about a hidden firearm in Rivolli Spanish Town and advised him to retrieve it at night.
But the retired policeman says one of his colleagues got the same tip from Christie in a separate conversation.
He says had both officers gone to retrieve the weapon at the same time, as Christie advised, each would have thought the other was a gunman and would have shot at each other.
He says that would have happened because in such operations members of the constabulary would have gone to such a scene in plain clothes.
He says the police decided only one member of the constabulary would go and the weapon was retrieved.
The trial resumes at 10:00 on Monday morning.
