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Berbice teen found guilty of murder, sentence deferred to Thursday

Nov 13, 2012 News

The 17-year-old accused in the No. 54 Village Dam Corentyne murder was on Monday found guilty. The teen, Rayan Alli, called ‘Karran’ of No. 54 village Corentyne and formerly of Black Bush Polder is on trial for the murder of his relative Premchand Sugrim, 48, called ‘Copper’ and ‘Pluck’ on the 20th July 2011.
Justice Roxanne George Wiltshire on Monday morning summed up the evidence for the jury and directed the panel on certain points of law.
She pointed to the cause of death as described by Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh as a result of cerebral haemorrhage with Necrosis due to blunt cranial trauma.
She also spoke on the evidence of police Corporal Police Corporal, Hasrat Mohamed, who took a caution statement from Alli in which he admitted to lashing the deceased on the head on July 10, last year, but said that it was in self-defense. She also mentioned the caution statement of Alli.
The jury took just under two hours to return the unanimous verdict of guilty of murder.
However, his sentence was deferred to Thursday, because the accused who is said to be 17 years cannot be sentenced to death because he was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the crime. Justice George Wiltshire also requested to see his birth certificate to certify his age. His mother who has been present in court throughout the trial, promised to make the document available to the court on Thursday. The prosecution had given his date of birth as October 14, 1995.
State prosecutor Attorney at law Rhondel Weaver held for Attorney-at-law Priteema Kissoon who was absent.
Both defense Counsels, Attorney-at-law Kumar Doorasammy and prosecutor Priteema Kissoon had submitted their closing statements to the jury.
The state’s case as presented by Kissoon is that on July 10, 2011 following a dispute between the two men, Alli who was 15 at the time used an iron pipe to hit Sugrim who was his relative in the head.
Sugrim collapsed and was picked up and rushed to the Skeldon hospital, before being transferred to the New Amsterdam hospital. He was then transferred to the Georgetown Hospital where he died 10 days later.
The state called nine witnesses.

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