Justice Roxanne George to rule on Monday
DEFENCE Counsel Mr. Bernard De Santos, S.C., in the Lennox Syfox murder trial has completed his no-case submission on behalf of his client, Lennox Syfox, in which he called on the judge to find that the Prosecution had failed to make out a case for the accused to answer.
De Santos is asking that the accused be freed at this stage.
Justice George, the presiding judge, who conducted a voir dire (a trial within a trial) to determine the issue by hearing arguments from both sides in the absence of the jury, has reserved her ruling to Monday morning.
Because of the enormity of the arguments, the judge said she would take some time to study the arguments involved.
When the voir dire began, Mr. De Santos first made his submissions in support of his client.  He was followed by Lawyer, Miss Latchmie  Rahamat, who along with state counsel, Miss Rhondel Weever, is appearing for the prosecution.
The Prosecution closed its case on Wednesday after calling a number of witnesses including eye witness, Pauline Rodney, the mother of the dead woman, Roslyn Rodney, who was allegedly wounded by the accused, for whom she bore two children,  the last being eight-month-old Analisa.
In her evidence at the substantive trial before the jury, Pauline Rodney said she was at home at Lot 14 Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, when the accused, who had a relationship with her daughter, invaded the home and attacked her daughter with a silver knife.
The mother gave a description to the jury pointing out how the accused held the knife, which he plunged  into her daughter’s left side face, rocking the blade in the wound and dragging it down to the neck, inflicting about six wounds in the  process.
Pathologist Nehaul Singh who performed the post mortem on the body of the woman, looked at his report and referred to the injuries that resulted in death due to perforation of the blood vessel and  the lung.
However, under cross-examination, Senior counsel De Santos told the doctor about the evidence of the witness Pauline Rodney and her description of how the injuries were inflicted. De Santos then enquired whether such a description by the witness, could have resulted in wounds he – the doctor – found on the body, Singh responded:  “Impossible”.
The doctor said it was impossible for the injuries he found on the body to be inflicted as described by the witness.
The trial continues on Monday morning when the judge will deliver her ruling in the no-case submission, made on behalf of accused, Lennox Syfox.