Two more witnesses testify in Tain Murder trial

Mar 11, 2014 News

The murder trial of the two Corentyne men who are accused of murdering another, continued on Monday with another voir dire taking centre stage with the main trial expected to continue day in The Berbice High Court. When the matter ended on Friday with the prosecution called two more police witness. This was following the visit by the court to the scene of the murder at Tain, the day before.
The trial which is being conducted before Justice Diana Insanally and a mixed jury has seen the prosecution calling seven witnesses so far.
On Thursday the entire court, including the Judge, the prosecution the defence and jurors visited the scene of the crime for a first hand inspection.
On Friday when the matter continued the prosecution first called Constable Nkofi Austin who stated that he arrested the number one accused at Black Bush Polder.
Also on the witness stand on Friday was Detective Corporal Primus Sam, during whose testimony the defence raised certain objections following which the matter was adjourned to yesterday.
Earlier, a lengthy voir dire (a trial within trial) which lasted for a number of days was conducted. At the completion of which saw Justice Insanally ruling that the statement purported to be given by the Number two accused is not admissible.
On trial for murder are Joshua Persaud, called ‘Sunny Boy’, and ‘Bun Boy’, 22; and Raphael Rene Morrison, called “Red Head”, 24, both of Bloomfield, Corentyne, Berbice.
The two men are accused of murdering Marlon Andrew Ramcharran on June 3, 2013 along a street in Block C Tain New Housing area.
Over the past few days State Prosecutor attorney at law Renita Singh and Attorney at law Mursalene Bacchus, who is representing the two accused were trading legal arguments in the absence of the jury as the matter continued in the Berbice High Court.
Testifying earlier were Detective Assistant Superintendent of police Gary Mc Alister and Detective Constable Emmanuel Rajnauth.
Mc Alister testified to visiting the scene and taking a statement from Morrison.
Rajnauth testified that he witnessed the statement given by Morrison that he visited the scene of the crime and arrested Morrison.
He also testified to finding the cutlass that as allegedly used to commit the crime.
Three other witnesses also had earlier testified in the case including the father of the dead man, Surendra Ramcharan, who identified the body.
Police Detective Constable Andel Doris who testified to taking photographs of the scene, and Molchan Raghubir who testified that on the night in question the number one accused, Persaud, went by his house with Morrison and demanded a cutlass from him, which he subsequently gave to him.
Earlier Prosecutor Singh had laid out the state’s case in which she mentioned that on the day in question Ramcharran was at a bar in the village where he met two friends, Nicholas Beharry, and Rakesh Jaikarran.
During the time one of Nicholas friend’s borrowed his bicycle to go to ‘Dust Till Dawn’. The men subsequently went and look for 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 start to chase after them forcing them to flee for their lives.
Marlon was later found lying in a pool of blood.
A post mortem examination performed on the body by Dr. Nehaul Singh revealed that the cause of death was shock and hemorrhage due to multiple incised wounds.

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