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Court orders retrial for Death Row inmate

Jul 18, 2008 News

The prosecution yesterday put death row inmate, Derrick Callender, on the witness stand to testify against Gary Moses, for whom a retrial was ordered by the Appellate Court.  
Callender and Moses were tried separately on indictments which accused them of killing Leila Barrow between July 23 and July 24, 1993.
In his testimony yesterday, Callender said that he and Moses broke into Barrow’s home to rob the place.
He added that he had no intention of killing anyone. According to Callender, while he was searching the place, Moses tied Barrow’s hands and feet, raped and killed her.
Callender contended that he is innocent of the crime he is accused of and that it was Moses who killed the woman. He also read a letter that he had written in 1999 to the then Minister of Home Affairs Ronald Gajraj declaring his innocence and stating in chronological order the events that unfolded on the night he and Moses broke into Barrow’s home.
He told the court that he did not tell the truth before 1999 when he wrote the letter because he was afraid for the safety of his family since Gary Moses had escaped from custody and was still at large.
Callender said that he wanted to testify in this case because he felt that he was carrying Moses’s burden for too long and needed the world to know the truth.
Under cross-examination by defence attorney, Peter Hugh, Callender said that he was charged jointly with his brother Vibert Callender for Barrow’s murder.
He added that his brother was freed and he was convicted by a High Court jury for the murder.
According to Callender, he then appealed that verdict but his appeal was dismissed in 1999.
He also stated that he wrote the letter to the former Home Affairs Minister after his appeal was dismissed.
Callender said that at the time when he gave his initial statement to the police, Gary Moses was in custody.
The matter was adjourned for today for continuation of cross-examination.
The Appeal Court set aside the death sentence imposed on Moses and ordered him to stand a retrial which commenced on Monday.
Moses is on trial for the murder of 53-year-old Leila Barrow, at her David Street, Kitty, home.
The matter is being presided over by Justice Dawn Gregory-Barnes. The prosecutor is State Counsel Sonia Joseph.

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