By Racquel Porter
The trial of Noel Maitland is set to continue in the Michaelmas Term.
This after the trial which began in May came to a halt on Tuesday in the Home Circuit Court due to challenges with the tenth witness.
The court was unable to connect with the witness who has been testifying remotely. The witness is also unavailable to testify today and tomorrow.
The current court term ends tomorrow (July 31).
The former car wash worker testified last week that the man who had brought a sofa to her workplace to clean, took over from her while she was power-washing it and that she observed blood "like rice grain" seeping from the sofa.
Prior to the adjournment, the witness, who had been working at the car wash for three years, was shown a photo with her and Mr Maitland at the car wash.
The court was also shown a photographs of the truck that transported the sofa to the car wash.
Two delivery men previously testified that Maitland had hired them to transport his sofa.
The first one said he was hired to remove the sofa from Maitland's Chelsea Avenue apartment and transport it to a car wash off Half-Way-Tree Road.
He shared that the constable had approached him, through a colleague, while they were at their workplace at a hardware store, where he is contracted to do deliveries.
The second delivery man, who said a man named Carlos had told him about the job, stated that he was at the hardware store when a car drove up and piloted him to a car wash on Lyndhurst Road in Kingston. There, he was instructed to take the sofa to an upholstery shop in downtown Kingston.
Mr Maitland is on trial in the Home Circuit Court on charges of murder and preventing the legal burial of a corpse, in connection with the disappearance of 24 year-old Donalee Donaldson.
The social media personality, swimwear entrepreneur, and customer service representative, was reported missing on July 13, 2022.
Her mother, Sophia Lugg, had previously testified that Maitland picked up her daughter on July 11 and that she last spoke to her on the morning of July 12.
Attempts to reach her afterwards were unsuccessful.
The trial is expected to resume on September 16.
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