The mother of murdered student Imette St. Guillen left a Brooklyn courtroom in tears yesterday because she could not bear to hear grim testimony about her daughter’s body.
Medical Examiner’s Office criminologist Taylor Dickerson had been telling the jury deciding the fate of accused killer Darryl Littlejohn about blood stains found on a quilt in which the grad student’s naked body had been wrapped before being dumped in Brooklyn.
Maureen St. Guillen, her face cringing as she battled to fight back sobs, swiftly stood up and walked from the courtroom as her husband, Frank Holbrook, followed.
“She’s fine,” Holbrook said later. “It’s hard for her to get through.”
The victim’s mom spent the rest of yesterday’s proceedings in a conference room. She has been at state Supreme Court in Brooklyn since the trial began last week, but has not spent much time in the courtroom during testimony.
Her husband returned to hear evidence linking bouncer Littlejohn’s DNA to zip-ties fastened around Imette’s wrists.
Imette was last seen leaving SoHo bar The Falls with Littlejohn in February 2006.