Gov’t pathologist tenders autopsy report in “Queenie,” murder trial

Jan 28, 2014 News

By Rehanna Ramsay
The medical report, which was compiled by Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh was tendered as evidence at the High Court yesterday, when the trial into the unlawful killing of Barbadian Tyrone Mc Donald Best continued.
On trial for the murder, is Tramangra Williams called “Queenie,” before High Court Judge Navindra Singh and a mixed 12- member panel of jurors.
After being deemed an expert in the branch of medical science that deals with the examination and diagnosis of samples from the body by the Judge, Dr. Singh told the court that he prepared a medical report subsequent to performing an autopsy on the body of Tyrone Mc Donald Best.
Dr. Singh said that external and internal examinations were conducted on the remains. They revealed that the victim died due to haemorrhage as a result of a perforated liver.
The doctor recounted that during the post mortem exercise, there were visible abrasions on the left side shoulder and above the hip bone of the deceased. “There was a vertical incised wound to the right side chest, at least four centimeters in length, usually inflicted by a sharp object.”
When asked by State Prosecutor, Judith Mursalin-Gildharie whether there were any signs that victim had received medical treatment or was hospitalized prior to his death; the witness said that there was no such proof.
“No test tube, oxygen, or pampers …things from the hospital.”
However, while under cross examination by Defense Counsel, Peter Hugh the witness revealed that the coroner report stated that the victim died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The Defense argued the possibility of the accused, who is petite in built inflicting such a severe wound to her 5ft ‘9″ inches boyfriend by thrusting a knife into his chest.
In response, Dr. Singh said that it would be difficult but not entirely impossible.
At the opening of the case, the court heard that some time after the murder, fully adorned in an outfit befitting a queen in pageantry, Williams, told Police investigators in a statement that her Barbadian lover, who had passed away, had been stabbed in his abdomen by two robbers.
The accused told police officers that she and her boyfriend had lived in Barbados before they came to reside with her two children at Lot 605 ‘D’ Field, South Sophia.
“On December 27, 2008 Tyrone had gone to the shop to buy cigarettes. I heard him shout from the outside of our home: ‘Queenie’! Oh God, come! I Run outside of my house, I see Tyrone on his knees holding on to his left side belly. The place was bright but I see blood coming from his belly,”
He tell me that two men “tackled him and take away $20,000 before stabbing him …they wore dark shirts and one of them had a cap over his face.”
She claimed that she had taken Best to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment, but he died several days later.
Last week, Police Inspector Nolan Burnett testified to procuring a Caution Statement (CS) on January 6, 2009 from Williams in which she admitted to stabbing her boyfriend.
According to Burnett, Williams had claimed that her boyfriend had beaten her and had accused her having an affair with another man.
“She said that she was going to report the matter at the Police Station when Best picked up a shoe and hurled it in her face. She said that she had a knife in her hand and she stabbed him.”
In addition, eyewitness Kenneth Anthony Webster told the court that he saw “Queenie,” stab Best.
“She de look like when she de hugging he but when she move away I see the brown handle knife in he chest. He tek he jersey and hold on to it (the knife) … I run around the house and tell my mother what I see.”

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