Firearm, ammo tendered in Stewartville murder trial

Jan 23, 2012 News

Policeman Hazrad Mohamed was another witness called upon to give evidence in the Stewartville murder trial as the matter continued Friday before Justice Franklyn Holder.
Peter Ray Kassim, called ‘Donkey’, and Satanand Sahadeo, called ‘Boyso’, are accused of murdering and robbing Vishnu Santi, on July 27, 2005. Santi was shot several times about the body outside his Lot 57 Stewartville West Coast Demerara home.
Prosecutors Judith Gildharie-Mursalin and Renita Singh are presenting the case for the state. Attorney-at-Law Huckumchand is representing Kassim, while Attorney-at-Law George Thomas is appearing for Sahadeo.
Mohamed told the court that the two defendants, along with three others, were arrested by a corporal Murray. According to the witness the allegation was put to the men.
He told the court that it was Kassim, a minibus driver, who said that he had picked up four men. According to Mohamed, Kassim told him that one Lloyd Johnson had a gun in his hand. The gun, according to the witness, was thrown out through the minibus window.
The court was further told that a party of policemen went back to the scene where Kassim said the gun was thrown. The gun was found wrapped in a yellow cloth. Closer examination of the weapon revealed that it was a .38 Smith and Wesson with five live rounds.
The gun and live rounds were tendered into evidence yesterday. Attorney at law Huckumchand, started cross examining the witness and that would continue on Monday.
On the previous occasion, former policeman Naraine Lall testified that he assisted with investigations. Another witness, Correen Brooks testified that about one week after the killing, she was returning home from the hospital and saw Sahadeo sitting in her home with a gun. Brooks was subsequently shown another gun, but said that was not the same gun she had seen.
Policeman Norris Harry, who took to the witness stand, said that he visited the scene and found four spent shells and two warheads, while there were bloodstains around the yard.
He said that the post mortem examination revealed the cause of death as hemorrhage and shock due to multiple gunshot wounds.
Harry further stated that the doctor had found two warheads inside the victim during the PME. The post mortem report, warheads and spent shells were also tendered into evidence on Wednesday.
The victim’s parents, 77-year-old Frank Santi and his wife Danpattie Santie were also called to give evidence as the matter continued. The father in his testimony said that, after the shooting, he saw the two men charged with the murder, jumping his fence in a bid to escape. But lawyers for the defendants dismissed this story, suggesting that it could be new evidence.
The witness was asked why he did not tell this to the police during their investigations and to the magistrate at the preliminary inquiry stage.
The elderly man was adamant that he did give the information to the police, and had referred to the matter at the preliminary inquiry.
But, upon investigation, it was discovered that the matter about seeing the two accused jumping over the fence into the neighbour’s yard after the shooting that night was new evidence.
The witness then explained that if he did not refer to the jumping over the fence in an escape bid in the magistrate’s court, it was because he was not asked but he declared that he was sure he had discussed that matter with the police, pointing out that he and the police were also looking at the footprints from the jump.
Santi said that he could not be mistaken about the defendants because he knows them since they grew up in the same area.

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