Jurors in a road death trial today heard how first responders tried to help an injured football club president shortly before he died.

The Supreme Court heard additional testimony from a motorists who encountered Marco Warren and a forensic photographer who examined him.

Curtis Richardson, 51, has pleaded not guilty to causing Mr Warren’s death by driving without due care and attention. His trial started yesterday.

Rache Hodsoll told the court she was on her way home from Hamilton in the early hours of May 14, 2023 when she was flagged down by a man near Trinity Church Road in Hamilton Parish.

She said: “I didn’t know what was going on at the time, but then I saw that someone was in my side of the lane.”

She added: “The young man was laying on his left side. His head was pointing in an easterly direction. His feet were pointing westward.

“At that point I went right to the body.”

Ms Hodsoll said Mr Warren was partially on a grassy area and partially in the road.

She noted the man was standing next to a taxi, which was parked in the westbound lane.

When Carrington Mahoney, for the Crown, asked her to identify the man, Ms Hodsoll it was “Mr Curtis Richardson”.

She added: “I was quite surprised to see a body on the side of the road — there was no helmet, no debris, no nothing.

“So I asked Mr Richardson, ‘What happened?’ and he said, ‘I don’t know, I don’t know’.

“I told him I was a registered nurse, so I went on to assist Marco.”

Ms Hodsoll said Mr Warren had “very laboured” breathing and was unconscious.

She noted that Mr Richardson was on the phone and she told him to call an ambulance, before an unmarked police car came to offer assistance.

When asked how Mr Richardson seemed, she said: “He was quite standoffish.

“He seemed to be aggravated that I was asking questions, which caught me off guard because I was trying to find out what happened.

“He just kept saying he didn’t know, he didn’t know.”

Ms Hodsoll said she was with Mr Warren for about 15 minutes before an ambulance, fire truck and another police car arrived.

She added she and other first responders “bagged” him and put a breathing mask over his face to help him.

Ms Hodsoll said: “He did raise his arm and that was the only response I’d seen.

“I just told him we were just trying to help him breathe.”

During cross examination, led by Victoria Greening, for the defence, Ms Hodsoll said she did not know the prior circumstances of the scene.

Ms Greening asked if she heard Mr Richardson say “I don’t know, I found him like this.”

Ms Hodsoll said: “Yes, he did say that.”

Mackie Crane told the court he was driving west in a car along North Shore Road that same night with a taxi about “a car and a half” in front of him, which he “eased off of” by slowing down.

He said: “When I went down, I saw what I thought was a trash bag, so I went around the trash bag.

“Then I saw the taxi at the bottom of the road.”

Mr Crane said: “I asked him ‘Did you see that trash bag? Was that a trash bag or a trash can?’

“He said ‘I’m going back to see’.”

The witness said he drove off after the exchange, but later found out the “bag” was a person who had died.

After this, he added, he made a statement to police.

Mr Crane explained that Mr Warren was on the left-hand side of the eastbound lane.

He added he didn’t see how the taxi was driving because he was slipping off his shoes while concentrating on the road.

Mr Crane said: “I wasn’t even aware of the taxi until I saw him with his brakes on.”

Ms Greening asked if he remembered telling police: “The taxi driver slowed down, put his brakes on, stopped.”

Mr Crane said: “Once I got around the body, all I can recall is the taxi driver had stopped.”

When asked if he saw the taxi hit the body, he said: “I don’t remember that.”

He later added: “I can’t say that I saw him running over him.

“To me, I never saw that.”

Jewel Hayward, crime scene photographer, said he was called to the intersection of North Shore Road and Trinity Church Road in Hamilton Parish on May 14, 2023 to take photographs of the scene.

He was later called to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to take photographs of Mr Warren’s body and clothes, as well as the exterior and undercarriage of a taxi and a car.

Jurors were shown post-mortem photographs of Mr Warren’s body. Mr Hayward noted injuries along the legs and sides.

He also pointed the jury to photographs of the black sweatshirt and pants he wore at the time.

The trial continues.

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