JUSTICE Diana Insanally yesterday granted the request for a Police Station Diary to be produced in the pools game manslaughter case at the Berbice Assizes.

Defence Counsel Hukumchand made the successful application to prove that the accused Narvin Raghoo signed to an entry in the book made by Police Lance Corporal Rupert Singh.

Hukumchand asked for the record after Singh told the Court that he wrote “I pelted the man with a Carib bottle,” with the accused present and signing his name to the statement.

Earlier, the witness, under cross-examination, recalled going to the home of the accused accompanied by other Police ranks but denied that they were from the Target Special Squad.

Detective Singh said it was not necessary for him to have a pocket book but he made a note in his diary which he cannot locate.

The witness said, when he arrived at the home of the accused, he took into his possession the clothes that Raghoo was wearing at the time of the incident.

Singh said the accused never told him he was at the scene when the killing took place nor was he taken to or asked what had happened at Red Rose Liquor Restaurant.

Another detective, Marlon Chapman, in his evidence, testified that he went to Nigg Public Road where he saw the body of the victim, Ramraj Sankar, clad in a pair of black long pants and a red jersey, lying on the western side of the roadway.

The witness, who was then an Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to Whim Station, said he instructed Sergeant Brunette, who had accompanied him along with other policemen, to examine the corpse and, while doing so, the latter saw wounds to the chin, below an armpit and the lower back.

Chapman said he then gave instructions to Burnett to photograph the deceased before escorting him to hospital.

Chapman, now a Superintendent stationed at Central Police Station, New Amsterdam, said, after leaving the scene, he proceeded to Belvedere Public Road where, in front of Red Rose, he saw pieces of wood and one half pair of rubber slippers that were also photographed.

Further along that road, Chapman said there was a bicycle and a photograph of that, too, was taken.

The witness said, after further investigations, the accused and another man were charged with the present offence.

Cross-examined by Hukumchand, Chapman said Red Rose is three-quarters of a mile away from Belvedere Inn.

He said while the Belvedere area is heavily populated, no one, including the accused, was at the crime scene.

Chapman was unable to say whether the things found along the road were involved in the commission of the crime.

The trial is continuing.