State Witness Testifies in No. 4 Supreme Court on Gregory Adams' Death: Details of Knifepoint Conflict Revealed

A state witness testified in the No. 4 Supreme Court on Thursday that moments before Gregory Adams’ death, he had Calvin Osbourne at knifepoint and in a chokehold.

Shae Colthurst was giving evidence in the murder trial of Osbourne and his mother Shonnette Williams who are accused of killing Adams on October 18, 2020.

During cross-examination by Osbourne’s attorney Sian Lange, the witness, who was dating Osbourne at the time, told the court that a fight broke out between Williams and her boyfriend, Adams, at their Lower Bridge Gap, Cave Hill, St Michael home. She said Osbourne got involved in the dispute, and she recalled seeing Adams with his left arm around her then-boyfriend’s neck, while he wielded a knife in his right hand.

“It [the knife] was coming into Calvin really, really close,” she said, adding that at that point she went to the neighbour’s house to get assistance as she believed her boyfriend’s life was in danger.

When she returned, she saw Adams on the ground, gasping for breath.

Saying that she was scared throughout the ordeal, the witness explained, “I came there solely just to meet his family, and this is what I met – not the most welcoming experience.”

Colthurst also denied that Osbourne was a violent person.

Questioned by defence attorney Peta-Gay Lee-Brace about what her client, Williams, was doing at this time, the witness said: “I remember her telling him ‘Get off of my son’, and she was hitting Gregory.”

Earlier in her testimony, Colthurst said that she and Osbourne had been asleep in his bedroom when a woman ran in saying “Calvin, Calvin, he hit me in my face”.

Colthurst admitted she did not know who the woman was at first as she had never met Osbourne’s mother before. She said she saw swelling on Williams’ cheek before she and her son went into the kitchen, and she heard her speaking of having to walk from St Lucy to St James before catching a taxi home.

Williams then went into a bedroom where her boyfriend Adams was, and he came out with his face bleeding and “a bit swollen”, Colthurst told the court.

The witness testified that Williams then began throwing glass bottles at Adams.

“When he came out of the bedroom, he had this white knife inside of his hand, and he was saying that ‘If yall wanna see foreplay, I gine show yall foreplay’,” she recalled.

She told the jurors that Williams and Adams were continuously quarrelling by that point, and they moved towards each other and started scuffling. The eyewitness said that Shania, Osbourne’s sister, moved between the two of them at one point but was pushed aside. The fight then moved out of the house and into the backyard, and she remembered seeing blood “all over the house”.