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Oct 07, 2011 News
– victim’s wife, neighbour testify
The murder trial for Cyon Collier also called ‘Picture Boy’ continued yesterday before Justice Winston Patterson.
Collier is charged with the September 30, 2006 murder of 34-year-old businessman Chandrapaul Persaud called ‘Kero man’ of Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara.
The victim’s wife Bibi Nazema Isshack took to the witness box yesterday as the matter continued.
She told the court that it was about 19:00hrs on September 30 and she was in the kitchen when her husband returned home.
According to the woman he was in the yard offloading goods from his vehicle with a worker.
Isshack said that she heard her husband “shouting for thief” and she turned around and was confronted by two bandits with “big guns”. She identified the defendant (Collier) as one of the men who entered her home. Isshack said the men started demanding cash and jewellery from her.
The woman said she begged them not to harm her children and proceeded to the bedroom. The court was told that the woman handed over approximately $100,000, two gold rings and a watch.
Isshack further told the court that after handing over the items to the bandits, she heard bottles pelting in the yard.
At this point she recalled hearing one of the bandits in the house shout to a third who was in the yard to “finish that man off”. After that, the woman said she heard three gunshots. Isshack told the court that she immediately ran outside to investigate.
The court was told that the three bandits all entered the family’s car PJJ 1892. The woman said she saw her husband lying in a pool of blood on the ground, he appeared to be dead.
The woman said that she attended an identification parade on October 6, 2006, where she picked out the defendant.
Under cross examination by defence counsel Lyndon Amsterdam, Isshack said that it was not possible for other men to have been there and leave on foot, before she ran outside because when the men drove away. She noted that there were three bicycles on the ground.
Also under cross examination, she said that she had to do the identification parade twice because the first time she went she became very emotional.
After the wife was finish giving her account, the couple’s neighbour Liloutie Dhanai was called to give her evidence in chief.
The witness remembers watching television on the night in question when she heard her now dead neighbour shouting “thief… thief”.
The woman said she ran to her window and saw three men armed with guns.
She explained that one of the men was at the gate, another on the veranda and the third at a glass door.
Dhanai said that she saw her neighbour “kero man” start pelting bottles at the one on the veranda.
The witness said that the bandit “pumped up” the gun and fired three shots at him.
The court was further told that the victim managed to stagger out of the yard and the three men escaped with his car.
Under cross examination, the woman said that although the area had plenty lights she would not be able to identify anyone.
Prosecutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin is representing the State.
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