A PRELIMINARY DATE has been set in the case of the Crown against Paul Gooden. Gooden was charged in November last year with the murder of his wife, Ingrid Andrade-Gooden, the daughter of the former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Glen Andrade.
When the case was mentioned in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, the senior deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewelyn, told the court that the matter could be moved to the preliminary stage. She also said that she and Gooden's attorney, Queen's Consul Churchill Neita, had agreed on the dates of February 9, 11 and 13.
Llewelyn also told the court that she handed over the DNA report to Neita. In setting the matter for the proposed dates, Resident Magistrate Martin Gayle ordered that all witnesses be subpoenaed.
The Crown alleges that Gooden murdered his wife by smothering and strangling her at their Sullivan Avenue, St. Andrew home on November 6, 2003. He then dumped her body in the mangroves by the Maritime Institute on Norman Manley Boulevard. Her body was found in that area by a passerby on November 8.
During a hearing, the court was told that traces of blood were found at the Goodens' home on bed linen, clothes, a mop, and bathroom fixtures, as well as in one of the couple's motorvehicles.
During the last court appearance, Gooden was described as being obsessed with his wife and on the day of her death called her on her cellular telephone more than 20 times. The calls stopped the following day.
It was also alleged that the couple were having marital problems part of which resulted in an intense argument that took place in front of her father. Gooden has been denied bail. The couple had two children under the age of 12.
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