A jury was shown video footage of a scuffle near Shelly Bay as the Ajamu Hollis murder trial continued in the Supreme Court.

Mr Hollis has denied killing Daemon Bell, a 49-year-old corrections officer, at Shelly Bay Park in Hamilton Parish on February 22, 2022.

Prosecutors claim that Mr Bell was struck in the face with a gardening hoe after he was caught in the middle of an argument between his brother-in-law and Mr Hollis.

Mr Bell was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital but died of his injuries later that day.

Melesia Clarke, a member of the Criminal Investigations Unit, said that she collected CCTV footage from a nearby business, Howzat, from the afternoon of February 22, 2022, and created a log of the activity she had seen in the footage.

At about two minutes into the footage shown to the court, a man on a motorcycle could seen pulling out of the entrance and returning a few minutes later.

He was then seen to walk away from the vehicle with an object in his hand.

As the trial continued yesterday, Charles Richardson, counsel for Mr Hollis, confirmed that the man seen on the motorcycle was his client.

Shortly after Mr Hollis exited the shot, Ms Clarke said, figures could be seen moving in the distance in a gap between trees that partially obscured the camera’s view of the area.

Moments later, three men, including the defendant, were seen walking towards the main road.

A scuffle then appears to break out between the defendant and another man, wearing a red shirt, who appeared to be wielding a bat or a club, which Mr Richardson suggested was a truncheon.

After a brief scuffle, the men crossed the road with the man in the red shirt following the defendant through the Howzat parking area and back towards the main road on the other side of the building.

As they near the road, a police car is seen driving past on it. The man in the red shirt turns around and approaches a window at Howzat while the defendant exits the shot walking towards the road.

Meanwhile, the passing police car was flagged down at the entrance to the Shelly Bay parking lot.

Mr Richardson suggested that during the scuffle, the man in the red shirt could be seen pushing Mr Hollis while the defendant was seen to repeatedly point in the direction of the Shelly Bay Field.

He also suggested that the man in the red shirt appeared to try to conceal the weapon in his hands when the police car drove past.

The trial continues.

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