Syfox murder trial…
AT the Demerara Assizes yesterday, Detective Sgt.  Michell Caesar told the judge and jury in the Lennox Syfox murder trial the accused had orally confessed to the killing of his child’s mother, Roslyn Rodney. The Sgt. went on to state that when he suggested that the accused should put his oral statement in writing, he bluntly refused.
The Prosecution, led by Miss Latchmie Rahamat and assisted by Miss Rhondel Weever, had set out to prove that Roslyn was at her mother’s home at Golden Grove on August 19, 2005, when the accused attacked the woman with a silver knife causing her to fall unconscious from knife wounds.
Her daughter, 8-month old Analisa, who the mother was holding at the time, was also injured during the attack.
Lennox Syfox was subsequently charged with the murder of Roslyn Rodney and unlawfully wounding the young child.
On the resumption yesterday, Michell Caesar testified that he was at his office at C.I.D. when Cadet Officer Blannum brought Lennox Syfox into the office and told him something.
Witness said that acting on information received, he then offered Lennox Syfox a seat to his desk and also offered Glannum a seat.
Caesar said that, in the presence of Glannum, he told the accused that it is alleged that he – at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara – murdered Roslyn Rodney and in the process wounded Annalisa Syfox.
Witness said after he cautioned the accused, the accused, in the presence of Glannum, said: “What happened that night is a mistake. Me and one of my friends of the Tactical Services Unit had some drinks. And when aah go home, my child mother started to abuse me. I got vex and ran upstairs with a pen knife I had and I fired a juk but I did not know she got cut until ah see the blood.
“On seeing the blood, ah ran downstairs, ran out the yard and ran down the road and started crying”.
Witness said he then asked the accused whether he would like to put what he had just said in writing and he replied:  “I can’t live without my child mother.”
Witness further stated that the accused said he did not wish to put the oral statement in writing.
After the witness declared that he wrote the voluntary statement, which was not signed, in a diary, Defence Counsel Mr. Bernard De Santos, S.C., told the Court that the defence would challenge the accuracy of the oral statement.
In answer to further questions under cross-examination by the defence lawyer, the witness said, “I recorded what was said by the accused in the Station diary at Brickdam. It is accurate. I also made an extract from the Station Diary”.
In answer to further questions, witness agreed that he might have left out a few words in reproducing what the accused had said in his oral statement.
Counsel suggested to the witness that what the accused said to him that day was “what had happened was an accident”.  Witness disagreed and maintained what the accused had said was:  “What had happened was a mistake”.
The prosecution is expected to call its last witness today in the person of Dr. Nehaul Singh.