2014 granny murder trial begins today -state to call 13 witnesses
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After much delay, the trial of Kevon Alfred, who is accused of the March 26, 2014 murder of Joyce Lewis, the 75-year-old woman who was found partially nude and bound in her two-storey house on Christiani Street, North Ruimveldt, will begin today.
MURDER ACCUSED: Kevon Alfred
The trial will be heard by Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member mixed jury at the High Court in Georgetown. Representing the state are Prosecutors Tiffini Lyken, Abigail Gibbs and Narissa Leander.
The state will be calling 13 witnesses, including police ranks, and civilians.
Appearing for Alfred, also known as “Sherwin Alfred”, will be state assigned Attorney-at-law, George Thomas.
Lewis had been living alone at her 3630 Christiani Street, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown home since her husband, a former Police Inspector, passed away three years earlier.
On the morning of March 26, 2014, a relative ventured to Lewis’s house after she failed to answer several calls made to both her cellular and landline phones.
It was then that her body was discovered.
According to reports, there were marks on the pensioner’s neck which suggested that she had been strangled. Her underwear was partially removed and her home was ransacked.
It was believed that the perpetrators gained entry into Lewis’s home by climbing through a bay window near the verandah. Police had confirmed that they found a “fresh” footprint on the window ledge.
Crime scene detectives had found a large knife wrapped in a rag in Lewis’ front yard.
It was five months after she was killed that the police were able to arrest Williams.
MURDERED: Joyce Lewis
Reports are that Williams’ fingerprints were among several that investigators found in the slain woman’s house.