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The alleged murder weapon in the Number 54 Village Dam, Corentyne, killing was on Wednesday tendered into evidence when the trial of 17 year old Rayan Alli called ‘Karran’ of No 54 village Corentyne and formerly of Black Bush Polder continued in the Berbice High Court before Justice Roxanne George- Wiltshire and a mixed jury.And on Tuesday, two eyewitnesses testified at the trial. Alli is on trial for the murder of Premchand Sugrim, called ‘Copper’ and ‘Pluck’, of No. 54 Village, Corentyne, on July 20, last year.Police Detective Corporal Hasrat Mohamed, who had testified earlier returned to court on Wednesday with what allegedly was the murder weapon.Being led by State Prosecutor attorney at law Priteema Kissoon,China Jerseys Cheap, he showed the court a piece of iron which he said was collected from the scene on the day in question. Mohamed also presented a cutlass in court which he said was retrieved from the scene of the incident. However, the cutlass was not tendered as evidence by the prosecution.On Tuesday, Goomatie Singh, 14, of No 54 Village, and a student of Tagore Memorial Secondary School and her father, Ramsingh, a labourer, had testified.The girl testified that she knew ‘Copper’, who lives about two houses away from her. She also knew ‘Karran’ for about one year. He lived about five houses from her. She said that he used to live at Black Bush Polder before he came to live in the village.Singh said that on the day in question she was at home hanging out clothes when she saw ‘Copper’ walking on the dam. She said that she saw ‘Karran’ run out from behind some black sage bush with an iron bar in his hand and lash ‘Cropper’ on his head. ‘Cropper’ fell and ‘Karran’ throw the iron bar on the ground and went away. She said that she did not see ‘Cropper’ do ‘Karran’ anything neither did she see ‘Cropper’ with anything in his hands.She also said that her father was in the vicinity when the incident happened. Nothing blocked her view that day. She said that she went and informed one ‘Shabana’ what happen. “The woman came and put Cropper head on her lap, took off his shirt and wipe away the blood.”In his evidence Ramsingh stated that on the day in question he was walking with Sugrim towards his house, when Karran came out from behind some bush and struck Sugrim with an iron bar on his head and ran away. He threw away the iron bar on the ground. When the police came they picked it up and took it away. He said that he did not go to Sugrim after he was hit. He went home.Sugrim, he said had a cutlass in his hand; he was a labourer.The State’s case being presented by Priteema Kissoon is that on July 10, 2011, following a dispute between the two men, Alli, who was 15 at the time, used an iron pipe to lash Sugrim, a relative, in the head.Sugrim collapsed and was picked up and rushed to the Skeldon Hospital, before being transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital. He was then transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he died 10 days later.The State is expected to call 12 witnesses.Alli is being represented by Attorney at Law Kumar Doorasammy.The matter will continue today. |
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