(CNN)  -- A paramedic accused of plotting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta after his 16-year-old son died in the Bahamas told a jury Wednesday the boy had been dead for some time before the ambulance service was called. John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died in the Bahamas in January after having a seizure. Tarino Lightbourn said in his statement to the Nassau, Bahamas, jury that a doctor told medics to keep administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Jett Travolta despite knowing the teen was dead, and that the ambulance company was told to transport him to the hospital -- something not usually done if a person was already dead.
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Paramedic on trial, accused of plotting to extort $25 million from John Travolta
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Tarino Lightbourn testifies Jett Travolta had been dead before help was summoned
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In Bahamas, defendants can make statement without being under oath
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Travolta's son died on Grand Bahama island on January 2 after a seizure
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