| -“case is the biggest perversion of justice” –Hughes – “trial made into circus by defence” – State ProsecutorThe prosecution and defence squared off yesterday in the final leg of the Lusignan massacre trial,Custom Raptors Jersey, giving their closing arguments in the case against the two men who are accused of slaughtering 11 people between 25-26 January, 2008.The prosecution headed by Senior State Prosecutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin is of the opinion that it is the defence that has made the trial into a “circus.”However defence Attorney Nigel Hughes believes that the case against the two accused, especially his client, James Anthony Hyles, known as ‘Sally’ is a “perversion of justice.” That was the summation he gave before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court. Attorney Roger Yearwood who is representing Hyles’ co-accused,Wholesale Jerseys, Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Smallie’, had closed his case on Tuesday.In an almost two hour-long address,Deion Sanders Falcons Jersey, Hughes told the court that there was a fabrication of information and conspiracy against the accused by the police. The lawyer said that the police were under immense pressure to find the perpetrators of the Lusignan killings and the “young,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, black” Buxtonians fitted the profile.He told the court that the police were in a rush to charge someone for the crime. He further indicated that in their “typical” manner of doing things, the police twisted the policing process for the evidence to work against the accused.Hughes elaborated on the evidence of Assistant Superintendent of Police Trevor Reid of the police’s Criminal Investigations Department.Hughes placed Reid as having a “Bossman” kind of authority over the prosecution’s star witness, Dwayne Williams, who confessed to being part of the gang of gun-wielding men who shot and killed the 11 Track A Lusignan residents.Hughes said that Reid admitted in the witness box that anything to do with the witness had to go through him. The attorney said that Reid was the “Godfather and did what Godfather’s do, they protect their own.” He indicated that the witness was being protected as he was the police’s ticket out from under the pressure of tagging someone for the East Coast killings.Hughes said the police conspired against the accused because they were just too embarrassed to lose the case.He stressed that the star witness Williams, who confessed to killing some 32 persons, was going to walk free because he testified against the two accused. The number 32 persons referred to, came from the Bartica and Lindo Creek massacres and Lusignan; all incidents where Williams said he took part in.The defence attorney said that the prosecution’s star witness purchased his freedom at the expense of the accused men. To find a way out,Cheap Jerseys Online, he said, Williams had to implicate the two men and was willing to do what he was told. According to Hughes, Williams received special treatment from the time he was arrested and will not spend a day in jail. Hughes touched on the evidence of another prosecution witness Durwin Wright, who said Hyles admitted to killing the Track A residents, and that of Williams, who said that Hyles was in the backdam on the morning after the shooting.According to the attorney the times given by the two witnesses were contradictory since Hyles could not have been in the backdam on the morning after the shooting and in Buxton at the same time.However,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, the prosecution urged the court not to fall for any emotional submissions made in the trial. She charged that the matter was based on facts and the defence was relying on issues that were not heard in the court. Mursalin first denied claims of the police fabricating a story and conspiring against the accused before asking why the case was being focused on ASP Reid.She said that Hughes manufactured evidence that was never heard in court and asked the jury to convict the two accused.She touched on the evidence of Hyles’ aunt,Discount NFL Jerseys, a defence witness,Cheap Jerseys Online, who said that the accused was at home watching cricket when the shootings occurred. The prosecution had stated that there was no cricket showing on the day the Lusignan residents were killed and that the aunt had mixed up the dates. It was noted that this information had not been refuted by the defence.When talking about bias and perjury,Wholesale Jerseys Group, she said it goes both ways not only for the accused. The police made no mistakes, she said before asking the jury to recognize the difference between a caution statement and an ordinary statement.On the issue of the two main witnesses, Wright and Williams, Mursalin said it boils down to which one of the witnesses the jury believes. She mentioned that Williams was 15-years-old and he could not remember when the accused left the camp (and was back in Buxton). Mursalin asked what reason would he have to lie on Hyles, since he (Wright) is still facing his murder charge in another matter? Wright, she pointed out, was also arrested before Hyles. She mentioned too that there is nothing wrong with Williams being a prosecution witness since the law provides for him to give evidence.The matter will continue on Friday when the judge will sum up and the jury will deliberate. |
