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Tain Murder trial…Second prosecution star witness testifies

Mar 23, 2014 News

There have been some interesting developments in the Tain murder trial now ongoing in the Berbice High Court before Justice Diana Insanally and a mixed jury.
On trial 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 Scheme.
When the matter continued on Friday, the second prosecution star witness, Rakesh Jaikarran, gave his evidence in chief. He was led by Prosecutor Renita Singh.
Jaikarran was called to the stand after the first star witness Nicholas Beharry who had given his evidence in chief since last week failed to return to court. He is still to be cross examined by the defence.
It is understood that Beharry has expressed fear since he reported that he was being threatened by the relatives of the accused and that his photograph is being constantly snapped.
In his evidence in chief Jaikarran, who along with Nicholas Beharry were eye witnesses to the chopping to death, described what happen.
Jaikarran related a similar story to that of Beharry.
The man stated that he knew Ramcharran for a long time. He is now dead. On the night in question he, Nicholas, who he called ‘Nico’, and Ramcharran went out. He said that he was with Beharry when they heard the deceased cry for help.
They ran to the scene and saw the two accused injuring the deceased. He asked them what they were chopping the man for and he and his friend were chased by the two accused. He had to run and hide in a yard until the accused went away.
He subsequently indentified the number two accused, Morrison, whom he saw at the station. Morrison denied that he had a cutlass. He said that on the night in question he had a piece of wood.
A few days later, he identified the number one accused Joshua Persaud. Persaud had stated that he had the cutlass and Morrison had a piece of wood. He saw them injuring the man for about five minutes.
So far the Prosecution has called a number of witnesses including Detective Assistant Superintendent of police Gary Mc Alister who testified to visiting the scene and taking a statement from Morrison; Detective Constables Emmanuel Rajnauth and Andel Doris who testified to the parts they played during the investigations; and Police Constable Nkofi Austin who arrested the number one accused Joshua Persaud at Black Bush Polder.
Two other witnesses also took the stand, including Surendra Ramcharan, the dead man’s father.  He identified the body. Molchan Raghubir also testified that on the night in question the number one accused, Persaud, went by his house in company with Morrison and demanded a cutlass from him which he subsequently gave to him.
The court had also visited the scene of the crime at Tain on the request of the defence.
The matter is expected to continue on Monday when both witnesses are expected to be cross examined.

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