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Nov 28, 2015 News
The High Court trial of murder accused, Patrick Anthony Balgobin, has commenced. Balgobin, a farm help from East Bank Essequibo, (EBE) is facing a trial before Justice Jo Ann Barlow and a mixed jury for the murder of 73-year-old Rudolph Moonsammy.
The incident allegedly took place in June 2010 at Lot 3, St. Lawrence, East Bank Essequibo.
In her opening address State Prosecutor, Tuanna Hardy, related that the two men had a quarrel when the accused followed the victim and dealt him a lash with a piece of wood. She said that the wood broke but Balgobin took up a cutlass and chopped the man about his body. Hardy is presenting the case in association with State Counsel, Diana Kaulesar.
According to reports, the accused was employed as a labourer on the victim’s poultry farm. The farmer had allegedly attempted to reprimand his drunken employee (Balgobin) for verbally abusing his wife and attacking a co-worker, when they began to quarrel.
Balgobin is said to have attacked Moonsammy battering him in the head and chopping him. Residents later found the elderly man unconscious in his bedroom.
Moonsammy was then rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital. He was thereafter transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC). The injured man died there, approximately three days after.
Balgobin was later arrested and charged for murder. He pleaded not guilty to the charge at the commencement of the trial on Thursday.
Meanwhile in another murder trial before Justice Priya Sewnarine, State Pathologist, Dr .Nehaul Singh testified that based on a post mortem, murder victim, Donna Thomas died of asphyxiation compounded by compression injuries to the neck along with blunt cranial trauma.
Thomas had been living with her common law husband, Anthony Morrison at the time of her death. Morrison is on trial before Justice Beharry and a mixed jury for murder. He had pleaded not guilty to the offence and is being represented by Defence Attorney Arun Gadraj. State Prosecutor Stacey Goodings is presenting the case.
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