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Voir dire ongoing in poultry farm’s employee murder trial
A voir dire (trial within a trial) continued yesterday when the trial of Mahendra Bishundial who is charged with the murder of Aga Khan, a truck driver employed with Edun Poultry Farm, continued before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.
MURDERED: Aga Khan
Bishundial is on trial before a 12-member mixed jury for Khan’s murder of Khan which occurred on November 06, 2012 at Busby Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara. The murder accused who has retained Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Presenting the State’s case are Prosecutors Lisa Cave and Orinthia Schmidt.
A police release stated that Khan was attacked by four men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, and others with knives. Khan was driving motor lorry GJJ 2806 owned by Edun Poultry Farms, east along Busby Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara when the men walked into the path of the vehicle causing the driver to stop.
One of the men then approached Khan and demanded cash. He was shot to his neck in the process. Investigations were carried out and Bishundial was arrested and charged.
Earlier this week, Mervin Marcus, who had also been employed with the poultry company testified that he and Bishundial had been friends since they both attended the Friendship Secondary School. He added that they graduated around the same time. Marcus disclosed that he and Khan were some of the company’s salesmen who worked on the truck.
When probed by the prosecutor, Marcus said that he recalled Bishundial had inquired from him about the company’s sales and he told him that “dem people (the company) does mek de load (a lot of money), but it does be in cheques.” The witness told the court that Bishundial was in the habit of asking him to send credit to his mobile phone, which he would do.
Also testifying was Saeed Edun, who told the court that Khan was one of his employees. According to Edun, a poultry farmer, on that tragic day, Khan collected the keys to Canter truck GJJ 2806, while another employee uplifted the bill books and a cellular phone.
Edun said that around 17:00hrs that said day, he received a phone call from his wife, which caused him to leave their home at Busby Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara. The witness said that the Canter truck was parked along the dam from where he saw Khan and another employee lying in a crouching position.
The poultry farmer recalled that he transported the injured men to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, after which, he left for the Grove Police Station to inquire about what had transpired. He disclosed that a total of $48,000 was missing from the Canter truck.
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