The prosecution continues to mount its case against former auxiliary constable Courtney Levy, who they say breached the public’s trust in an attempt to obstruct justice to protect his alleged associate, Roger Bush, who has since been convicted of murder.
Levy, 45, is accused of initially intimidating the prosecution’s star witness, just days after Shaquille Bush was gunned down in a hail of bullets by his father Roger Bush on 12 Nov. 2019.
Levy faces one count of obstructing the course of justice and another charge of breach of trust of a public officer. He denies both charges.
On Monday, 12 June, the witness concluded her testimony with adamant claims that Levy and Roger Bush were close associates.
“Roger and I went for a drive to the liquor store from Birch Tree Hill, but instead of stopping by Pop-a-Top, he drove past 10 or 15 liquor stores to deliberately get to one in town,” she said.
She told Justice Roger Chapple, who is presiding over the judge-alone trial, that when they arrived, Bush parked a few feet away from a silver BMW and made his way to the car.
“When he got over to the car, Levy wind down the window and he and Roger were having a full-blown conversation, and he kept looking back at me through the review mirror,” said Ebanks.
During cross-examination, Levy’s attorney Keith Myers said that the witness was mistaken, Levy was never there, and it must have been someone else.
“I had a clear view, there were no tint, no objects, or obstacles that blocked my sight and I could see him clearly because he kept looking back at me,” she said. “I know it was him because I still remember the fear I felt while they were talking and him looking back at me constantly.”
Myers also pressed the woman about inaccuracies in various versions of her police statements, evidence given during the murder trial of Roger Bush, and the evidence she was now giving in Levy’s trial.
“You said you went to see Roger Bush, one week after you got bail during that Grand Court trial, now you are saying you went to see him the same day. Were you lying then or are you lying now – which one is it?” asked Myers.
He added that woman’s statement to police about the liquor store meet-up claimed that Levy glanced back at her three times, but during the trial, she was now “embellishing the details” to make the matter seem more serious than it really was.
The woman remained firm in her evidence, which she gave via video link from a secure location.
When re-questioning her, Scott Wainwright, assistant deputy director of the Office of Public Prosecutions, enabled the witness to clarify that several of her accounts were supported by the initial statements she provided.
The woman has concluded her testimony and the trial continues.
Levy remains out on bail.
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