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Witness never said “I am fed up with lying”

Oct 23, 2010 News

… Wedding house murder trial continues

The trial of a 27-year-old carpenter accused of killing another man at a wedding house yesterday continued before Justice Winston Patterson.
On trial for the murder is Lokenauth Dyal, of Canal Number Two, West Coast Demerara. The indictment accuses Dyal of killing 36-year-old Farzan Khan, on February 2, 2008, at Clay Brick Road, Canal Number Two, West Coast Demerara.
Yesterday police officer Mohanram Dholai was called to give evidence. Prosecutors Latchmie Rahamat and Judith Gildhaire are presenting the state. He was cross examined by attorney at law Vic Puran.
Meanwhile, contrary to the report in yesterday’s issue of the newspaper where it was earlier reported that the main witness Odatt Rafeek had admitted to lying, it was the defence lawyer who put it Rafeek that he was having a “discomfort lying” and he admitted.
Afterwards Rafeek refused to answer questions which Puran asked, forcing the lawyer to make the application to have the cross examination aborted.
Puran then made an application for Rafeek to be sent to Camp Street Prison, because he was a recalcitrant witness. However Justice Patterson did not grant the lawyer that request.
The witness never said that he was “fed up with lying.” This was further borne out by the panel of jurors and the prosecution,
Kaieteur News regrets the incorrect quotation and apologises to the court.
Reports from the police indicate that Khan was standing with his brother, outside a house where a wedding reception was in progress, at the time of the incident.
He and Dyal allegedly had an altercation, during which Dyal reportedly pulled out a knife and dealt him several stabs to the body.
The badly wounded man was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The matter is expected to continue on Monday.

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