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Three witnesses called in Corentyne murder trial

Mar 02, 2014 News

The murder trial of the two Corentyne men, Joshua Persaud called ‘Sunny Boy’ and ‘Bun Boy’, and Raphael Rene Morrison called “Red Head”, continued on Wednesday before Justice Diana Insanally and a mixed jury in the Berbice High Court with the state calling three witnesses.
The two men are indicted for the murder of Marlon Andrew Ramcharran who was 18 when he was killed on June 3, last year along a street in Block C Tain, New Housing Area.
Before the witnesses were called, State Prosecutor, Attorney at Law Renita Singh made opening statements.
She told the court that on June 3, last year, Ramcharran who lived with his mother at Tain was at a bar in the village where he met Nicholas Beharry and Rakesh Jaikarran. During the time, one of Nicholas’ friends borrowed his bicycle to go to ‘Dust Till Dawn’. The men subsequently went in search of the friend to retrieve the bicycle.
Around 02:30 hrs on the day in questioned the friends left the bar. Marlon went ahead and his two friends followed behind. The friends subsequently heard Marlon pleading ‘you chopping the wrong person’.
Beharry and Rakesh then ran to where Marlon was shouting and there they saw the two accused chopping him. Marlon subsequently fell to the ground. The court was told that after the two accused saw the two witnesses they started to chase after them forcing them to flee for their lives.
According to Singh the deceased was later found to be lying in a pool of blood.
The State called three witnesses, including the dead youth’s father, Surendra Ramcharan, who identified the body. Police detective Andel Doris testified to taking photographs of the scene. The third witness Molchan Raghubir testified that on the night in question the number one accused, Persaud, went to his house in company with Morrison and demanded a cutlass from him.
A post mortem examination preformed on the body by Dr. Nehal Singh revealed that the cause of death was due to shock and hemorrhage due to multiple incised wounds.
The men are being represented by Attorney at Law Mursalene Bacchus.
The trial continues.

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