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West Coast hairdresser murder trial… Accused was paid US$1500 to carry out hit – Police Witness
A police witness testifying in the case, for which Troy Green is indicted for the murder of West Coast Demerara, hairdresser Bibi Rafeena Saymar, told
Murdered Bibi Rafeena Saymar
the court yesterday that the accused had confessed to playing an integral role in the woman’s death.
Green, a labourer from Holmes Street, Georgetown, is on trial for the murder. His trial is being conducted before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12-member jury at the High court in Georgetown.
Saymar, who was called ‘Amanda’, was butchered at her Hague, West Coast Demerara apartment on May 29, 2010. She was stabbed 11 times about her body by a lone intruder and died before receiving medical attention.
A post mortem examination conducted on Saymar’s body indicated that she died as a result of shock, haemorrhage and multiple injuries which she sustained.
Saymar’s reputed husband, Dennis Persaud, a Canada-based Guyanese businessman had been detained for the murder. There were reports that Persaud had hired a hit man to kill his wife.
However, the case against the Canada-based Guyanese was thrown out, after Chief Justice (Ag) Ian Chang ruled that the court lacked sufficient evidence to charge him. Persaud was subsequently freed.
Yesterday, Detective Sergeant, Paul Wintz read aloud Green’s Caution Statement (CS) after it was admitted into the trial following a voir dire.
The statement, which Detective Wintz read detailed that the accused was part of a plot to harm and torture the West Coast Demerara businesswoman. Wintz said that Green had told police investigators that he was paid US$1,500 to carry out the hit on the hairdresser.
In his caution statement, Green identified the victim’s husband, whom he said he had known for five months, and another man as also being a part of
Murder accused: Troy Green
the plan. The other man implicated in the crime was identified as Shane Simon, whom the accused said transported him to and from Saymar’s home.
Green said that (Simon) had picked him up from the East La Penitence area and transported him to Hague, West Coast Demerara.
He said that Persaud call him on his cell phone and offered him US$1500 to go to his home with Shane Simon… Simon picked him up in a white car and took him to Persaud’s home, where he “stab up Persaud’s wife several times…”
According to the Detective Sergeant, after committing the act, Green said that he placed a knife and sheet in the trunk of the vehicle, which brought him back to Georgetown.
The detective said that he subsequently held a confrontation with the accused and the two men.
According to Wintz, during the confrontation the victim’s husband admitted to paying Green some money but said that he did not tell the accused to kill his wife. Simon, however, denied transporting the accused to the home of the murdered businesswoman.
The trial will continue today.
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