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Former policeman Naraine Lall was yesterday called to testify as the murder trial for two men continued before Justice Franklyn Holder.Peter Ray Kassim, called ‘Donkey’, and Satanand Sahadeo, called ‘Boyso’, are accused of murdering and robbing Vishnu Santi, July 27, 2005. Santi was shot several times about the body outside his lot 57 Stewartville West Coast Demerara home.Prosecutors Judith Gildharie-Mursalin and Renita Singh are presenting the case for the state. Attorney-at-Law Huckumchand is representing Kassim, while Attorney-at-Law George Thomas is appearing for Sahadeo.Lall said that he assisted with investigations. Another witness, Correen Brooks testified that about one week after the killing, she was returning home from the hospital and saw Sahadeo sitting in her home with a gun. Brooks was subsequently shown another gun, but said that was not the same gun she had seen.Yesterday afternoon, Policeman Norris Harry took to the witness stand. He told the court that he visited the scene and found four spent shells and two war heads. Harry said that there were blood stains around the yard. He said that the post mortem examination revealed the cause of death as hemorrhage and shock due to multiple gunshot wounds.Harry further stated that the doctor had found two war heads inside the body of the victim during the PME. The post mortem report, the warheads and spent shells were also tendered into evidence yesterday. Harry is to continue his evidence in chief today.The victim’s parents, 77-year-old Frank Santi and his wife Danpattie Santie were also called to give evidence as the matter continued. The father in his testimony said that, after the shooting,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, he saw the two men charged with the murder, jumping his fence in a bid to escape. But lawyers for the defendants dismissed this story, suggesting that it could be new evidence.The witness was asked why he did not tell this to the police during their investigations and to the magistrate at the preliminary inquiry stage.The elderly man was adamant that he did give the information to the police, and had referred to the matter at the preliminary inquiry.But, upon investigation, it was discovered that the matter about seeing the two accused jumping over the fence into the neighbour’s yard after the shooting that night was new evidence.The witness then explained that if he did not refer to the jumping over the fence in an escape bid in the magistrate’s court, it was because he was not asked but he declared that he was sure he had discussed that matter with the police, pointing out that he and the police were also looking at the footprints from the jump.Santi said that he could not be mistaken about the defendants because he knows them since they grew up in the same area. |
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