| The seventh witness called by the Prosecution testified yesterday that some two weeks after the alleged shooting to death of Vishnu Santie,China Jerseys Cheap, she saw the number two accused with a gun and he told her that was the gun he had used to shoot the victim with.Deowattie Lysek called “Shelly” testified before Justice Franklin Holder and a mixed jury when the murder trial of Peter Ray Kassim called ‘Donkey’ and Satnanand Sahadeo called “Boyso” continued. The two accused are charged with murdering Santie, 34,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, at 57 Stewartville Pasture, West Coast Demerara, on the night of June 29, 2005.In her evidence-in-chief, led by State Counsel Judith Gildharie Mursalin,Wholesale Jerseys From China, in association with Renita Singh, Lysek said that she was selling at her snackette, located in front of her home at Stewartville,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, when she was called by her neighbour, David Boucher, to his home. This was about two weeks after Santie’s death. She said that when she entered Boucher’s kitchen,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, she saw Sahadeo, whom she had known prior to that date as he lived in the same village with her, with a gun in his hand.According to Lysek, she asked Sahadeo what he was doing with a gun and he told her that he wants some oil to clean it. She then asked him what happened to the gun and he told her that after the night of Santie’s death, he threw the gun in some water and it got rusty. The witness recounted that she asked Sahadeo why he shot Vishnu “as he was a peaceful and quiet boy.”At that stage, the witness began crying and indicated to the court, among other things, that she could not continue with her evidence. Justice Holder then adjourned the trial for more than two hours following which the witness resumed her testimony.Lysek said that she asked Sahadeo why he shot Vishnu because Sahadeo told her that was the gun he had used to kill Vishnu. She also said that Sahadeo asked her to borrow $1500 and she asked him for what and his response was “to buy bullets.” She claimed she told him she had no money and left Boucher’s home but she did not tell anyone what transpired there as she was afraid.On October 27, 2005,Wholesale Jerseys USA, she was taken to the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station where she saw Boucher and his wife, Coreen Brooks. She was questioned by the police and then Boucher was called in and he “refreshed” her memory about what had happened, after which she gave a statement to the police.When cross-examined by George Thomas, who is appearing for Sahadeo while Kassim is represented by Hukumchand, Lysek said she would not have given the statement to the police if Boucher had not spoken to her and admitted that she gave her statement under pressure. She, however, explained that she did not want to get involved in the matter and maintained that she was afraid. She denied that she had given the statement to help her friend, Boucher.Earlier, Ballistics Expert, Sergeant Eon Jackson, had testified that the .38 Special Smith and Wesson revolver taken to him for analysis was the gun from which the .38 bullet was fired.Corporal Hazrat Mohamed had testified that at 1:07am on October 10, 2005, the two accused and three other men were arrested by the police and taken to Leonora Police Station where Kassim had told them that one of the men in the bus had thrown out a gun as the police was stopping them.Kassim volunteered to take the police officers where the gun was thrown out and when they arrived at the area at Stewartville Old Road, he picked up a yellow cloth, unwrapped same and Mohamed had retrieved the gun which was forwarded for ballistics examination.Corporal Norris Harry had also testified that he witnessed the autopsy performed on Santie’s body and Dr. Nehaul Singh had removed two warheads from the body and handed same over to him. One was a .38 special bullet which Sergeant Jackson said had been discharged from the .38 Smith and Wesson revolver.Both the revolver and the fired bullet were admitted into evidence based on applications made by the prosecution.The trial continues today. |
