‘Cane Juice Man’ tells court he was the lover, not the killer – as murder trial continues in High Court

JUSTICE Navindra Singh and a mixed jury at the Demerara Assizes yesterday continue hearing the murder case where Michael Anthony Persaud, called ‘Mikey’, is on trial for the murder of his reputed wife Maduri Padumdeo, called ‘Sharda’, of Lot 8 Sophia in December 2011.

Witnesses have stated that the accused ‘Mikey’ had, for some time, been living with Sharda in a common law union and that they have parented a two-year-old son. The accused and his paramour worked with Chandrapaul, called ‘Kaylee’, known as ‘Cane Juice Man’, selling cane juice at different locations.

Chandrapaul, who testified yesterday, denied a defence counsel suggestion that he had killed the woman because she wanted to end an intimate friendship with him.

Reacting to the question, the big-built businessman who was giving evidence for the prosecution, said he had no reason to kill Sharda since they had an intimate relationship and she was a good employee who treated customers correctly and gave him everything that he wanted.

Chandrapaul also denied that he had sodomised the accused at a hotel where he rented a room for himself and the couple after his car had broken down on the East Coast of Demerara while attending a wake.

A caution statement which the accused is alleged to have given the police was admitted in evidence by the judge. The statement by the accused reads: “A day Sharda tell me that she aint love me, that she like Chandrapaul. I told her don’t do that baby I love you. I got frustrated and ran berserk with she. Me didn’t expect she gon tell me something like that. Me tell she don’t worry. Me tell she that me gon kill myself and I cut my finger.”
Later the girl was found dead at her home from strangulation and the accused attired only in a pair of shorts was lying at her side.
The hearing is continuing.

(Barclay)

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