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A dead man talk in vain

May 17, 2019 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, Kaieteur News, https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...ad-man-talk-in-vain/

If is one time de whole world does believe a man is when he dying. Anything he do all he life is only when he close to dying that people does really listen.

Of course, when a man got money anything he talking when he dying does got people listening. Dem want hear who name he gun call because dem want to know about who getting what.

If de man is a criminal de police does listen really keen because dem want to hear wha he got to say about a certain crime. Dem boys see police question a man who dem shoot just to get him to talk.

In this case de police tek a statement from a man who was dying. Dem decide to use de statement against a man who did stab de man and lef him to die. De sick man talk and talk. De police didn’t use tape recorder; dem use notebook and paper.

In de end de man dead suh he never get to know that he waste he time talking to de police. De whole story is about a man who get vex wid he colleague in de bush. De camp was lying down in dem hammock when this man walk in wid he gasoline and throw it pun de men in de hammock.

Three men get away but one get bun so bad that he dead. Is he statement dem use in court. But was a time wid de accused and he lawyer. When dem tender de statement, de lawyer argue that de statement wasn’t signed. De dying man didn’t sign.

Dem boys want to know if de man bun up bad how he can sign. De man hand woulda stiff. Anyhow, de judge shy out de statement . Wha surprise everybody is how de man still get off. De people who get away coulda testify.

But this same statement wha de magistrate pass fuh mek de man end up in de High Court.

Talk half and watch wha you seh when you dying.

Death bed statement collapses in court… miner walks free of murder charge

May 17, 2019 News, Kaieteur News, https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...ee-of-murder-charge/

A miner walked free of a murder charge yesterday after the death bed statement produced on behalf of the victim failed to stand up in Court.

The case was dismissed by Justice Navindra Singh.

David Campbell

Rajesh Roopnarine, also known as β€˜Boss Man’, appeared before Justice Singh at the High Court in Georgetown on a charge of murder.

He had pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that on December 6, 2014, at Mabura, Upper Demerara River, he murdered David Campbell.

However at the commencement of his trial yesterday, the court was informed that the main evidence against Roopnarine, was not enough to convict him of the offence.

The Prosecution led by State Attorney, Tariq Mohamed and Tuanna Hardy, had presented a statement purported to be the victim’s dying declaration as the chief evidence in the case. However upon examination of the document, the Court found that the statement did not contain the elements to satisfy the legal definition of such a declaration.

The Prosecution had called three witnesses in the matter. Among them, the policeman, who secured the statement from the victim, a day before he met his demise.

However since the Court rejected the statement as dying declaration, the miner who was represented by Attorney- at -law Nigel Hughes, was freed of the charge.

Based on reports, the now dead man was a chainsaw operator in the Mabura area. He sustained third degree burns about his body and died at the Georgetown Public Hospital seven days after he was reportedly set alight at a mining camp.

Campbell resided at Old Road, Timehri, East Bank Demerara was at the time with his colleagues, Jason Persaud, Etwaroo Karran and Tyron Campbell, who were also in the camp when it was set alight. The three men, however, managed to escape without injuries.

FM

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