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Hogstye backdam murder…Prosecution puts more witnesses on stand
The prosecution continues to put witnesses on the stand as the second murder trial of a man and his son who are accused of the shooting death of a Corentyne farmer at Hogstye, Corentyne back in 2011 continues in the Berbice High Court.
The two accused in court.
On trial are Krishna, called ‘John’, 50, cattle and rice farmer of Alness and Letter Kenny, Corentyne, and his son Rommel Krishna, 24, a farmer of Alness Corentyne Berbice.
They are accused of murdering Shawn Fraser, on July 27, 2011 at Hogstye backdam, Corentyne Berbice.
The men are on trial before Justice James Bovell-Drakes and a mixed jury.
The duo is facing a second trial following the abortion of the first matter in May. The men are being represented by Attorneys-at-Law Murseline Bacchus and Kim Kyte John.
The state is being represented by Attorney-at-Law Renita Singh.
When the matter continued on Wednesday, Police Detective, Sergeant Gilbert Ross returned to the witness stand where he completed his evidence. Ross detailed the part he played during the investigation.
He related that he had found cartridges not too far from where the body was found in the backdam. He had swabbed the hands of the accused and submitted them to the police analysis department.
Detective Corporal Andrew Ward also took the witness stand and testified to the part he played during the investigation.
The next witness to give evidence was Detective Assistant Superintendent of Police, Gary McAlister.
McAlister in his evidence stated that upon receiving certain information on the day in question he led a party of policemen into the backdam.
They journeyed down Saltan Dam into the backlands before crossing over into Saltan Village before reaching Hogstye dam where they found Shawn Fraser’s body.
The witnesses were cross examined by Attorneys at Law Murseline Bacchus and Kim Kyte John. Testifying earlier was a sister of the deceased Raquel Fraser who related to the court that she had identified the body of her brother during the post mortem examination.
Another sister Kim Providence had related to the court that on the day in question her brother had left for the back dam. Some time in the afternoon she received a telephone call. She subsequently went to the backdam in company with others.
During the journey Providence stated that she saw two men, Rommel Krishna and Kevin, under a shed. The men spoke to her.
Police Corporal Harold Noble testified to being in charge of the shift at the Whim Police Station when Krishna called John was taken in.
The dead man’s brother, Jermaine Fraser, called ‘Singer’ also gave evidence. He took his injured brother, first to the Whim Police Station, before journeying to the Port Mourant Hospital, then to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Leon Gray, called ‘Dar’, testified to being in the back dam with the deceased brother Ray Fraser when the shooting occurred.
In her opening address state Prosecutor Renita Singh said that on July 27, Shawn Fraser and his brother Audwyn Bindah called ‘Audwyn Fraser’ of 11 Adventure Farm Corentyne who are farmers, left their home to tend their rice field at the Hogstye backdam.
They were later shot at. Shawn Fraser subsequently died.
A post mortem examination on the body of Shawn Fraser at the New Amsterdam Hospital by Dr. Nehaul Singh gave the cause of death as perforation of lung due to penetrating wounds to chest and compound fracture to the skull.
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