Court hears… Man chopped neighbour who asked him to turn down loud music

Mar 27, 2018 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

Yesterday, the court heard from Deonarine Persaud that his neighbour chopped him to the head after he called out to him to turn down loud music that was coming from his house. The neighbour, Andy Boodram called ‘Boy,’ is currently on trial before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member mixed jury, for attempted murder.
The allegation against Boodram is that on September 24, 2011, in the county of Demerara, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Persaud called ‘Anil’, with intent to commit murder.
An alternative indictment for felonious wounding was also presented against Boodram who is being represented by Attorneys-at-Law George Thomas and Nekeisha Singh. Appearing on behalf of the state are Prosecutors Abigail Gibbs, Tiffany Lyken and Shawnette Austin.
During his testimony, Persaud recalled that during September 2011 he lived at Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara. He said that Boodram was his next door neighbour. He made it clear that he and Boodram were never friends and that he only knew him because he was a regular customer at a shop he operates at his residence.
Persaud, a father of one, told the court that alcoholic beverages were available for sale at the shop from which music was played to entertain customers.
Recalling the events that led up to the chopping incident, Persaud recounted that his wife had asked him to go and ask Boodram to turn down the volume of the music that was coming from his house. He said that his wife made the request because their son who was 11 months old at the time had been sick and was sleeping.
He said, “I was shouting for Andy Boodram so that he could come out. Andy Boodram came out on the platform and I asked him if he could turn down the music please because my baby was sleeping. And my baby was ill.” But Boodram, Persaud said, refused to turn down the volume of the music by telling him, “Me ain’t turning down the f***ing music.”
According to the witness, “He (Boodram) kept cursing me and I curse him back.” He added that sometime after he heard Shirley Singh, whom he had been chatting with earlier shouting, “Anil run! ‘Boy’ (Boodram) coming with a cutlass!”
Persaud told the court, “I did not run at the said time. As I turned around Boy was already in front of me swinging the cutlass. I could not have run because Boy had already chopped me two times on the right side of my head.”
He related that as Boodram “broadsided” him with the cutlass, he used his arm to bar the blows and received a chop to his left thumb. He said that Boodram continued to broadside him with the cutlass even though he fell on his back.
Persaud said that he fell unconscious and later woke up in the Georgetown Public Hospital where he spent two weeks after undergoing surgery.
During cross examination by Defence Counsel Thomas, Persaud was told that he failed to mention that he was chopped twice in a deposition signed by him. He was reminded by Thomas that the deposition was given in the Magistrates’ Court.
However, Persaud maintained that he stated that he was chopped twice to the head to the Magistrate. It was suggested to Persaud by Thomas that he was armed with a piece of stick which he used to lash his client. Persaud denied this suggestion.
This trial is continuing.

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