A jury heard how a man charged with a fatal shooting told police that he met one of his co-accused shortly after he happened to drive past the crime scene.

In a police interview recorded days after the murder of Letrae Doeman, Aaron Perinchief said that he had seen police giving first aid to a man near Flatts in the early hours of July 1, 2022, but assumed that it was the scene of a road traffic collision.

He also told police that he was not cleaning a motorcycle that prosecutors said was linked to the murder, stating that he was putting away cleaning supplies that someone else had left out when officers arrived at his home.

“All my cleaning products looked like they were used,” Mr Perinchief told police.

“When the man came, I was just picking them up. I was just picking them up and putting them back.”

Mr Perinchief is charged alongside Nasaje Anderson, Jukai Burgess and QuaZori Brangman with the murder of Mr Doeman, who was gunned down in Flatts Village on July 1, 2022.

As the trial continued in the Supreme Court yesterday, the jury were shown a pair of police interviews conducted by detectives Warren Bundy and Don DeSilva as part of the investigation.

In the first interview, recorded the day after the shooting, the officers questioned Mr Brangman for 45 minutes about the crime.

During the interrogation, Mr Brangman refused to say whether he had anything to do with the murder or where he was at the time of the shooting.

He also declined to comment when asked if he knew any of his co-accused, although he later confirmed that he did after it was pointed out that he had been arrested at Mr Burgess’s home.

He said he did not know who had carried out the killing and insisted that Mr Anderson had not been involved.

However, when asked if Mr Burgess or Mr Perinchief had been involved, he replied: “No comment.”

During the second video interview, recorded on July 5, 2022, Mr Perinchief told the court that on the night of the murder he had gone to the house of a female acquaintance in St George’s.

He said that he left the house sometime after midnight and, while driving home, he came across what he believed was a traffic collision in Flatts.

“I saw officers in the middle of the road saying you cannot come Flatts way,” Mr Perinchief said. “They were just letting me go up the hill.”

He said that a short while later, as he passed Ariel Sands, he was called by a friend he knew only as “Saje”, who an officer in the interview said was Mr Anderson.

Mr Perinchief said Saje told him: “I don’t have enough gas to get back east. I need somewhere to chill overnight until my boy comes to get me in the morning.”

The defendant told officers that when he reached Wellbottom Hill, he saw Saje waiting on a black Honda motorcycle.

Mr Perinchief said Saje followed him to his house and, once there, Mr Perinchief told him he could wait in his car until his ride came and then went to bed.

He told officers that when he woke up Saje was still in the car.

Mr Perinchief said he went to get his hair cut in Hamilton and it was only at the barber shop that he learnt about the murder through social media.

He told the officers that after his haircut he returned home, by which time Saje had already left.

He told the police that it was then that he noticed the black Honda motorcycle that Saje had been riding on did not have a licence plate.

Mr Perinchief said he also discovered that someone had accessed his cleaning supplies and had just begun to put them away when the police arrived and he was arrested.

Under cross-examination by Jerome Lynch, KC for Mr Perinchief, Mr DeSilva agreed that Mr Perinchief had indicated several areas where he believed CCTV cameras would have captured his movements.

Mr DeSilva said he was aware that Mr Perinchief had previously given a “no comment” interview, but did not know if it was the defendant or an officer who instigated the July 5 interview.

The officer also accepted that during the July 5 interview Mr Perinchief mentioned an affidavit he had received regarding the investigation into the case, but at the time he was not sure what he was referring to.

Mr Lynch also asked Mr DeSilva if he was aware that last July, Mr Perinchief indicated that was prepared to admit to being an accessory after the fact.

Mr DeSilva responded that he was not aware of that.

The trial continues.

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