At Berbice Assizes…
THE sister of the victim in the pools game manslaughter case, testifying at the trial of his alleged killer yesterday, told Justice Diana Insanally and the jury at the Berbice Assizes, that she hugged him on the day he was stabbed but got no response.

Then she felt a hole on the left side of his body and saw other injuries under his left arm and chin.

The witness, Indrawattie Ramjanan was giving evidence against Narvin Raghoo, who is indicted with the unlawful killing of Ramraj Sankar, on April 23, 2006.

She said she had earlier been awakened by a telephone call and, in company with another brother, went to Nigg Settlement, where the deceased was lying face down.

Ramjanan said, after seeing the condition of her sibling, she telephoned Albion Police Station from where ranks travelled to the scene.

Another witness, retired woman Special Constable Eleze Tyndall, under cross examination by Defence Counsel Hukumchand, said, on April 24, 2006, Joshua Harripaul made a report at Albion Police Station that an East Indian man, whose name and address he did not know, had hit him on the head and body with a bottle.

She remembered giving a deposition at the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge but admitted that she did not mention the word bottle in it.

Tyndall said she alerted ranks on mobile patrol about the report and requested that the reporter be taken to hospital for treatment.

She said Harripaul left the station, promising to return, but did not.

The case for the Prosecution, being presented by State Counsel Fabayo Azore, is that Raghoo and Sankar were playing on a pools table at Red Rose Liquor Restaurant before the latter was found lying motionless on Nigg Public Road, fatally injured.
The trial continues on Monday.