on Tuesday identified pictures of the day the piece of furniture was brought to the establishment. Maitland is on trial in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston for murder and preventing the lawful burial of a corpse following the July 12, 2022 disappearance of his 24-year-old girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson.

Donaldson was an entrepreneur and social media influencer. She was last seen alive at the Chelsea Manor apartment complex in New Kingston, St Andrew, where Maitland lived. The former car wash employee is the 13th witness in the case to give evidence. She is doing so via video link from a location overseas. The seven-member jury will hear testimony from 33 witnesses in the case in total.

After prosecutors showed her the first of a number of pictures from closed-circuit television footage, the witness said: “That’s the man that brought the settee. He is under [the shed of] the service area where we wash the cars.” The witness told the court that in the picture Maitland was wearing a white T-shirt, brown shorts, and a pair of slippers. She also identified a truck which, she said, had brought the settee to the car wash.

On Wednesday, July 23, the witness had said she recalled a grey car driving onto the compound of the car wash about 9:00 am and a brown man came out and spoke with her. She was asked by the prosecution to look around the courtroom to see if she saw the person she referred to as the brown man and she replied that she did not see him. The prosecutor asked if she had ever seen the accused again after that day. She said that she had not. According to the witness, on the morning of the day when she spoke to the accused, he drove out and returned in the afternoon about 1:00 pm with a truck. (Jamaica Observer)