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Children on trial for stepfather’s murder

Nov 28, 2013 News

– Police witnesses testify

The trial of the four persons accused of unlawfully killing US-based Guyanese Motielall Singh, continued on Tuesday at the Georgetown Supreme Court.
The persons on trial, Bibi Farida Khan, called ‘Pum’, Shamiza Khan called ‘Sham,’ and Hoosman Khan, called ‘Strongman’- Singh’s stepchildren- along with  and Bissoondial Mahadeo, called ‘Weed Man’, were indicted for the murder which occurred in September of 2009.
A fifth person, Ayube Hamid, called ‘Little’ was also charged for Singh’s murder but, subsequently died in prison.
On Monday, Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) Terrace Paul testified on behalf on the prosecution.  He was cross examined on Tuesday by Defence Counsel, Bernard De Santos (SC) and Attorney -at –Law, Glenn Hanoman.
State Prosecutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin also called retired Police Inspector Ingrid Abrams to the stand. Abrams told the court that she was on duty at the Leonora Police station on September7, 2009, when based on information received, she visited the Dem Amstel Police Station around 3:00 hrs. There, she met Hoosman Khan, the number three accused.
Abrams told the court that Khan said that he was at First Street Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, with his stepfather when three masked men attacked them from behind.  Abrams related that Khan told her that the men told him to “run for his life,” which he did.
Khan subsequently took the police officer to the scene, where she said she saw what appeared to be the lifeless body of man, lying in a pool of blood.
Abrams said that it was later discovered that the man was a resident of Lot 290 Hemlock Street, Brooklyn New York.
According to Abrams’s evidence, police investigators later recovered a ‘black knob’ of a knife from the scene. However the blade was never found.
Keith Boodram told the court on Monday that Singh’s relatives had offered him US $700 to murder their stepfather.  However, Boodram, a former policeman, said he made off with the money without harming Singh. The relatives then allegedly paid others to commit the crime.
In her opening statement to the court, the Prosecutor revealed that the post mortem report stated that Singh died of shock and haemorrhage due to multiple stab wounds. He had been stabbed 20 times about his body.
Several other witnesses are set to testify when the matter, which is before Justice Navindra Singh, continues.

 

 

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