JUSTICE Diana Insanally will, this morning, sum up the evidence to the jury in the Paul Lohing murder trial, after which she would hand them the case for their consideration and verdict.

The accused, Paul Anthony Lohing, lost the first round in the legal battle last Tuesday when the judge overruled a defence no-case submission and called upon him for a defence before the jury.

At close of the prosecuton’s case, defence lawyer, Mr. Huckumchand had asked the judge to free his client on ground that the prosecution had failed to make out a prima facie case against the accused; but a voir dire determined that issue in the absence of the jury.

The prosecution, led in the substantive trial by prosecutrix Miss Natasha Backer, introduced circumstantial evidence in support of the contention that the accused had strangled his lover, Shoala Gilgeous, on August 26, 2012, following a telephone call to the home.

Counsel for the accused urged the jury to find that circumstantial evidence had failed to convince anyone that the accused was the killer, and requested them to return a verdict of not guilty.

Justice Insanally will begin her summing-up this morning. Lawyers on both sides have already addressed the jury yesterday.

(By George Barclay)