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Jun 10, 2014 News
– accused to know fate today
Prosecutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin has closed the case against street dweller, Omesh Chaitram, called “Black Boy”.
Chaitram is on trial in the High Court before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12-member jury, for the murder of his colleague Wendell Fresco, called “Country”.
Fresco, 35, of Yarrow Dam, Ruimveldt, was reportedly stabbed following a bitter row over money. The victim, a vagrant for more than 15 years, was reportedly murdered while he slept on a pavement at Alexander Street, Georgetown.
State Prosecutor Mursalin called three witnesses to the stand yesterday. The witnesses included Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, Police Constable Shemroy Alleyne and Wendy Wilson, the sister of the deceased.
Dr. Singh told the court that the victim could not have lived for more than ten to fifteen minutes after being stabbed. He died due to a single wound, which pierced his heart.
Constable Alleyne told the court that he had escorted the accused to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC) where he was treated for a wound to his armpit, while the victim’s sister recalled that she identified her brother’s body, in the presence of a policeman and a pathologist.
She claimed that during his lifetime, Fresco had been a labourer. He would do errands for vendors around the Bourda Market area.
In his defense, Chaitram offered the court an unsworn testimony. He claimed that he had nothing to do with Fresco’s death.
“I de just done wuk pun the market. I decide to tek a lil drink wid ma friend. Me get high and end up sleeping pun the pave at Robb Street. I de sleeping but I feel like somebody feeling in meh pocket and I jump up. I see a man; he bore meh and I run away.
“I go at Tuesday yard and tell he that Country bore me. He tell me go at de hospital. I went walking going at the hospital… rain start fall and I drop to sleep under a lady stand …
“De police roll up pun meh and tell me I kill a man. Dem carry me in de lock up and tell me that if I sign a paper I could go… I tell dem I can’t sign. Dem tell me watch how dem write and write it back….”
Last Friday, an inmate of the Georgetown Prisons became the second witness to testify in the murder trial.
The witness, Keith Tuesday, claimed that the police forced him into giving his statement. He told the court he knew both the accused and the virtual complainant for a number of years, but nothing about the murder.
“Dem say that dem gon lock up down to me dog if I aint give a statement. I tell dem that Black Boy only tell me that Country bore he with a piece of steel under he armpit.”
However, Tuesday later made contradictory statements. He spoke about a knife which was allegedly used to commit the crime.
In his evidence in chief, the witness told the court that the accused was armed with a knife but later contested the statement.
“The truth is that Black Boy ain’t had nothing in his hand.”
When he was asked to clarify his statements for the court, the witness simply stated “Right now, me head ain’t deh on right. I in jail so sometimes I get confuse.”
Today, Justice Singh is expected to hear the closing arguments of Defense Counsel, Raymond Alli, and State Prosecutor Mursalin.
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