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Hung jury in Bush Lot murder trial
– Accused to face court a second time
The accused in a September 2009 murder at Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, will have to face another trial.
Ramesh Sahadeo, 44, called ‘Bado’, a tractor driver, who was on trial for the murder of 17-year-old Darshanan Ramanan called ‘Tato’ of Bush Lot Housing Scheme which occurred on September 20, 2009 at Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, will have to face a judge and jury again, after his trial ended in a hung jury (without a decision).
The accused, Ramesh Sahadeo, leaving court yesterday.
Sahadeo was on trial in the Berbice High Court before Justice James Bovell-Drakes and a mixed jury.
The court heard that on September 20, 2009 at Bush Lot, Sahadeo reportedly slashed the neck of Ramanan, killing him, following a misunderstanding between the two men.
During the trial, seven witnesses testified – the deceased man’s mother, Ceelena Ramanan, two eyewitnesses, Vishal Dayaram and Sahadeo Jailall, Daneshwar Persaud, police officers Stephen Mansell and Dwayne Harvey and Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan.
The eyewitnesses, Dayaram and Jailall, had recounted that on the day in question they had witnessed the accused inflicting the fatal chop to the neck of Darshanan Ramanan.
Dayaram had testified that the accused had handed him a bag with Parsad (sweet meat) before taking away his cutlass and chopping Ramanan. He had stated that this was after an argument had ensued between the two men. Sahadeo was armed with the cutlass while Ramanan had a brick.
Ceelena Ramanan testified of receiving information about her son’s demise. She testified that she had raced to the scene where she saw her son lying on the ground with a wound to his neck and with what appeared to be blood around him.
Daneshwar Persaud, a relative of the deceased, testified to identifying the body on the day of the post mortem. He witnessed the autopsy which was conducted by Dr. Brijmohan at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Superintendent Stephen Mansell had told the court that on the day in question he was stationed at the Fort Wellington Police Station. He conducted investigations and subsequently arrested the accused.
Detective Corporal Dwayne Harvey in his testimony had stated that he went to the scene where he saw the accused in a pool of blood. He had a chop wound on his neck. Harvey said he subsequently conducted investigations in the matter. He also witnessed the post mortem Examination.
Dr Brijmohan in his testimony had given the cause of death as shock and haemorrhage due to an incise wound to the neck.
State Prosecutor Rhondel Weaver had set out to prove that it was the accused who had inflicted the injuries on Darshanan Ramanan resulting in his death. She had submitted that when the injuries were inflicted, they were intended to cause grievous bodily harm and not done in self- defence or following provocation.
The defence had put forward a case of self-defence.
Sahadeo was represented by state-appointed attorney Tanya Warren Clements.
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