A High Court heard that a disabled mother, now deceased, had been terrified when police found the gun her son Peter Ricardo Mayers tried to hide in her lap two years ago.“I say look how the police going to carry me away for a gun that I know nothing about,” Aldene Daniel said in a statement which was read into evidence by a court clerk on Monday, during Mayers’ trial in the No. 4 Supreme Court.Mayers, of My Lord’s Hill, St Michael, is before Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell and a nine-member jury accused of having a Smith and Wesson 9 mm luger calibre semi-automatic pistol and ten rounds of ammunition on April 20, 2019.From Daniel’s statement, the court heard that she suffered from diabetes and was visually impaired for 11 to 12 years as a result of that condition. She also had high blood pressure, heart problems, and poor circulation. Daniel’s left leg had also been amputated and she needed a wheelchair to get around.
