Notice served on prosecution yesterday
DEFENCE Counsel Vic Puran, representing accused Lakenauth Dial, called Mohan, in the West Bank, Demerara, murder trial yesterday indicated his intention to challenge the expertise of the forensic pathologist,  Dr.  Nehaul Singh. Justice Winston Patterson, the presiding judge, warned the prosecutor to be in a state of preparedness, to which Prosecutor Miss Latchmie Rahamat, who is appearing in association with Mrs. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, disclosed that she was aware of the plan by the defence and was prepared.
The prosecutor could not tell what date the doctor would testify in the current matter since he was in the interior and could not be communicated with.
The notice was served on the Court yesterday by the defence in the presence of the jury and the trial judge at the Demerara Assizes while the witness Lakenauth was being cross-examined.
The prosecutor told the judge and jury that the pathologist will be communicated with as soon as possible and would testify in due course.
Accused Lakenauth Dial, called Mohan, is indicted with having between the 2nd and 3rd day of February, 2008, in the County of Demerara,  murdered Farzan Khan at Clay Brick Road, No. 2 Village, West Bank, Demerara.
The prosecution is alleging that the accused stabbed Khan to death following a wedding function, when he went to purchase a coke from a shop, about 22 hours on the 2nd of February, 2008.
However, defence counsel Puran has intimated that the defence’s story is built on the contention that a witness named “Curry” had gone to the wedding house that night with the object of murdering the brother of the accused.
The deceased, the prosecution is saying, had gone to purchase an aerated drink about 22:00hrs when the accused, Lakenauth, it is said,  attacked and wounded him. He was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Two days ago, the judges set aside a voir dire ( a trial within  a trial ) to determine the admissibility of an oral statement to accommodate the witness Harricharran  Rampersaud, who had given the deceased a drop that night in his  Toyota car when Khan left the vehicle  to purchase a coke. He was killed in the process.
Yesterday, Rampersaud was cross-examined by the defence and the  jury when he gave conflicting  testimony about a man  called  ‘Curry”.   
Cuffy, who it is said had begged for a lift and was in the same car  with Khan,  had refused to render help to get the injured Khan into the vehicle.
The witness completed his cross-examination and the judge is expected to return to the voir-dire trial on the resumption on Monday.