Two freed of murder

Mar 19, 2011 News

A jury yesterday found that Jainarine Persaud, 42, and Andy Jagmohan, 26, who were accused of killing Andy Peters at Grove, East Bank Demerara, in January 2008, were not guilty for the capital offence of murder, nor for the lesser count of manslaughter.
The jury brought back the decision before Justice Winston Patterson.
State Prosecutors Teshanna James and Rhondel Weever represented the state, while the two were represented by attorneys Khemraj Ramjattan and Neil Parsaram.
The jury informed the court yesterday that they were unanimous in their decision.
The prosecution, led by prosecutor James, had set out to prove that the two accused, at Grove, East Bank Demerara, beat Peters with a piece of wood and iron pipe, thereby causing his death by multiple injuries.
A motive for the killing was not given but the prosecution had set out to lead witnesses who would show that the killing was deliberate, with intention to kill or to cause grievous bodily harm.
During the trial a number of police and civilian witnesses were called to testify.
A neighbour Mohamed Ali, who according to the prosecution was an “eyewitness”, also gave evidence.
Police Officer Shizram Nurgyaya also testified. He tendered the post mortem examination results to the court.
Police Constable, Jason Kyte, who is stationed at the Grove Police Station, testified that relative to a report of the murder committed on Andy Peters on January 28, 2008, he assisted in the investigations.
Civilian witness David Persaud testified that on the night of the murder, he was aroused by a noise. Persaud said that he ran outside and saw a man lying on the road in a pool of blood. The man appeared to be unconscious. He took the injured man to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.
Police Inspector Lloyd Thomas was called upon to testify since one of the witnesses who had given evidence in the matter in the magistrate’s court had died. That witness was Holly Lashley who was Peter’s wife. Thomas then read the deposition to the court.
The deposition is the evidence which the dead witness had given in the Magistrate’s court. That evidence was mainly about identifying her husband’s body at the Georgetown Public Hospital Mortuary.
Elizabeth Bishop, the dead woman’s mother, was also called to the witness stand. She produced a death certificate which was tendered into evidence.
The last witness to be called was Government pathologist Nehaul Singh.

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