Extortion Case – Emotional High Stakes for John Travolta

As a court in the Bahamas convened Tuesday morning in the extortion case involving the January death of John Travolta and wife Kelly Prestons 16-year-old son, Jett, the grieving father had to summon all his strength to attend.

Going back to the Bahamas was an emotionally trying time, bringing back all to vivid memories of what happened and what they had lost there.

The prosecution alleges that paramedic Tarino Lightbourn one of the first people to arrive on the scene on Jan. 2 when Jett Travolta suffered a seizure at his familys house in the Bahamas and his attorney, former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, conspired to extort 25 million dollars from Travolta in return for not making public a document relating to Jetts treatment. The pair have pleaded not guilty.

On the witness stand Tuesday morning, Lightbourns partner, paramedic Derrex Rolle, established, for the first time publicly, that Jett Travolta was unresponsive by the time the paramedics arrived and said there was no sign of life when they examined him.

“Jett was lying down on his back,” Rolle testified. “And there was no sign of life. He was not responding. I checked him for carotid pulse. I checked ABC air, breathing, circulation.”

Asked by the prosecutor, “Was he breathing?,” Rolle responded, “No sir.”