Prosecution closes case in Better Hope murder trial
DEFENCE Counsel, Mr. Nigel Hughes, will today begin the defence of his client Carl Swinath in the Better Hope murder trial.
According to the Prosecution, Kumar Jainarayan, also known as Kumar, was bludgeoned to death in a brawl at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, on November 8, 2004.
Police investigations led to the accused being arrested and […]
‘Kyte’ charged with killing his children’s mother
THE man accused of murdering his children’s mother appeared Wednesday before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle charged with the capital offence.
Thirty-one-year-old Haslyn Hodge, called Troy and ‘Kyte’, of 43 Prospect, was not required to plead to the charge which said on April 4 last, at Kaneville, also on the East Bank Demerara, he murdered Tamesha Riddle.
The […]
Jury overlooked; murder accused walk on no-case submission
THE COURT of Appeal, at the invitation of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), reviewed the decisions of certain murder cases and found that the trial judges in the cases of Alvin Mitchell (1984) and Cecil Levine (1987) had usurped the function of the jury by freeing the accused on no-case submission, rather than letting […]
Murder of Guyanese woman in Trinidad
- suspect on the run in Guyana
THE alleged suspect in the murder of a Guyanese woman in Trinidad continues to elude the Police on the West Coast of Demerara, where he was sighted by a relative of the deceased.
Woman testifies husband killed son, wounded her
EYEWITNESS in the La Grange, West Bank Demerara murder case at the Demerara Assizes, Lilowatie Adams, yesterday recounted how her reputed husband, Frederick Hinds, chopped her son, Gavin Adams with a cutlass.
West Demerara Police looking for Trinidad murder suspect
POLICE on West Coast Demerara are on a continuous lookout for a Guyanese man suspected of murdering a woman, also from Guyana, in Trinidad.
Ruling expected today on murder case jury challenge
JUSTICE Claudette La Bennett is expected to rule today on a Defence submission that there is imbalance in the composition of the jury in the Annandale murder case at Demerara Assizes.
Nine women and three men are on the panel sitting at the trial of Khemraj Bhoodoo called ‘Sham’, who is indicted for the unlawful killing […]
Three more testify in Main Street murder case
At Demerara Assizes…
THREE more witnesses, two of them policemen at the time, testified yesterday on the resumption of the Main Street murder case at the Demerara Assizes.
On trial is Kevin Anthony also known as Sean Christian, who is indicted for having unlawfully killed Feroze Ali on January 3, 2005, during the ‘Main Big Lime’ in […]
MMC Jungle ambush triggers alarm among security firms
THE ambushing and killing of two MMC security guards by a heavily armed gang Monday, along with previous attacks on GEB Security Services, Professional Guard Services — some with fatal consequences — has once more led private security firms to believe they are faced with a new kind of threat from criminal elements.
Cane Grove murder accused freed Mohan Ram Singh on no-case submissions
Two police investigators & star witness ‘Aunty Baby’ discredited
JUSTICE William Ramlal, the trial judge in the Cane Grove murder retrial yesterday castigated two police officers , Corporals Mentore & Semple, and Star witness ‘Aunty Baby’ whose nonsensical explanations in the trial , he said, led to the accused Mohan Ram Singh being freed of murder..
