| By Latoya GilesGovernment Pathologist,cheap nfl jerseys sale, Dr. Nehaul Singh, testified on Friday last that from the gunshot injuries he saw on Ray Walcott,Air Max Tn Plus Womens, death would have been instantaneous and from the injuries he saw on Walcott’s brother, Carl Andrews, he could not have lived for more than 15-20 minutes.Dr. Singh was called as the final witness for the prosecution when the trial of Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ resumed before Justice Diana Insanally and a mixed Demerara Assizes jury.Collier is charged with the double murder of Walcott called ‘Sugar’ and Andrews called ‘Alo’ on September 23, 2006, at the Victoria Four Corner, East Coast Demerara.When the trial reconvened Friday, after Dr. Singh had testified about his qualifications and experience and the fact that he had performed more than 10,000 post mortem examinations and had testified more than 1,000 times in the courts of Guyana, Senior State Counsel Judith Gildharie-Mursalin applied for him to be deemed an expert in Forensic Pathology and Dr. Singh was so deemed by the trial Judge.Dr. Singh had performed post mortem examinations on the bodies of the two brothers on September 25,Wholesale Jerseys, 2006, two days after their bullet-riddled bodies were picked up from the scene.Dr. Singh read and explained Walcott’s post mortem report first and told the jury that Walcott had sustained seven gunshot wounds. He was severely injured to the head which caused his face to be disfigured and brain material was evident.He said all of the entrance wounds were to the front and side of Walcott and from the injuries he observed, death would have been instantaneous. Walcott’s cause of death was given as multiple gunshot injuries.Dr. Singh then read and explained Andrews’ post mortem report in which he had found that Andrews sustained three gunshot injuries and died as a result of perforation of the lung due to gunshot injuries. Andrews’ injuries were to his back. He was asked by the Prosecutor whether that was consistent with him running away from the shooter and he said whether or not he was running,Cheap Jerseys China, his back was to the shooter.When cross-examined by Defence Counsel, Lyndon Amsterdam, Dr. Singh was asked to take the Judge and jury through the procedure of a post mortem examination. Dr. Singh explained all that is usually done, including how the dissection of a body is done by the Eviscerator (the ‘cut man’).Dr. Singh agreed with Counsel that a post mortem report had to be self-evident and was challenged on the issue of why under ‘external examination,’ there were internal organs, etc, mentioned which would not have been seen until after dissection and ought to have been mentioned under ‘internal examination.’ The doctor explained that he writes up his findings like that for cohesion and completeness.Defence Counsel suggested to Dr. Singh that there is no cause of death as ‘multiple gunshot injuries’ but the doctor said, “nonsense,” denying the suggestion. At one point of the cross-examination when Defence Counsel raised his voice, Dr. Singh said, “don’t shout at me.”Following the doctor’s evidence, the Prosecution closed its case, after which defence counsel then made no-case submissions in the absence of the jury.Gildharie-Mursalin will respond to the no-case submissions on Monday when the trial continues.The Prosecution called 10 witnesses,World Cup Jerseys 2018, including eyewitness Kwesi Stewart called ‘Silver,’ who testified that he and Collier had grown up together and that while he, Stewart, was playing dominoes with some friends, ‘Sugar’ and ‘Alo’ were watching the game when Collier rode up on a motor cycle with a “big gun” slung across his back. Stewart said Collier sent ‘Sugar’ to buy cigarettes which he did, after which Sugar and Collier each smoked a cigarette. Collier was speaking with them when he began cranking the gun and aimed at Sugar. Stewart said he and Alo were running towards the seawall but Collier never shot at him, only at Alo, who jumped a fence into Nicola Goodchild’s yard. Stewart said Collier then went back to the road where he joined a mini-bus. Stewart could not say if Collier had any other guns but he was positive there was only one shooter that morning and that the shooter was Collier.Another witness who testified on behalf of the prosecution was mini-bus driver, Mohan Singh called ‘Jughead’ who said he was heading to Georgetown, from Ann’s Grove,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, with a bus load of passengers when the side sliding door of the bus began giving trouble. He stopped to fix the door at the Victoria Gas Station when Collier, whom he had known for some 12 years, came up with a gun and told him that he had to move now because he had just killed two people. Singh claimed he told Collier that he would take him where he wanted to go. Collier went into the front passenger seat after the two passengers had exited and Singh dropped him off at Factory Road, Paradise. Singh said by the time he had dropped off his passengers and was on his way back up the East Coast, the police pulled him in because the two passengers had already informed the police that Collier had joined his bus.Some 12 days after the fatal shooting of the brothers, a party of about 30 police officers and soldiers found Collier at a home at Lot 23 Bachelor’s Adventure at 5:00am with a number of guns and ammunition, including an AK 47 Assault Rifle. Collier was told of the allegation and arrested, following which he confessed, in writing, to shooting the brothers because he claimed, he had given Alo a .38 gun to keep for him and Alo did not give it back to him when he asked for it.After a voir dire (a trial within a trial) in which the State had called nine witnesses and the defence called three, including the accused himself, the Trial Judge had ruled that the statements were freely and voluntarily given and admitted them into evidence.Ballistics Expert, Sergeant Eon Jackson, has since testified that the spent shells retrieved from the murder scene had been fired from the AK 47 Assault Rifle which Collier had shown to the police when he was asked by DSP Michael Kingston where the gun was that he had used to shoot the brothers.Sergeant Jackson also testified that the bullet which was given to him for examination by Inspector Nolan Burnett and which had been removed from Alo’s body by Dr. Singh during the post mortem examination was a .32 bullet. He admitted under cross-examination that such a bullet could not have been discharged from an AK47 Assault Rifle. However, when asked whether he had told DSP Kingston and DSP Linden Lord that in light of that .32 bullet further investigations were required, Sergeant Jackson said he told these officers that “a gun was missing,” and such a gun could have been either a .32 or a .38. Jackson explained that .32 ammunition can be modified to be fired from a .38 gun.The trial continues on Monday. |
