Challenging police  investigations
VETERAN defence counsel Mr. Jailal Kissoon yesterday joined his colleagues, Adrian Thompson and Satesh Kissoon, in criticizing the police for poor investigation in the Farm squatting area attempted murder case. The defence is complaining of the lack of thorough police investigations into the matter to ensure that the evidence satisfies the claim that a fight at a wedding house had brought about the alleged attempted murder of Ramnauth Sukhnandan and/or grievous bodily harm to the same man, known as “uncle Munique”
The prosecutors, Miss Sandiford and Mrs.  Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, had set out to prove that as a result of a fight at the wedding house which erupted after a boy was slapped, the two accused, Naresh Singh, called ”Baby”, and Mohan Harriram, called “Rockey”, had on the 20th day of August, 2006, in the county of Demerara, caused grievous bodily harm to Ramnauth Sukhnandan with intent  to murder or to do him grievous bodily harm.
One of the police investigators, PC Devon Bowen, said that when he arrested the No.2 accused, he did not charge him until five days later, when he should have done so within 72 hours. The police had told Kissoon that the No.2 accused had denied hitting the victim.

Under cross-examination by Mr. Jailall Kissoon,  Sukhnandan, who admitted that he had to take a brain scan because of the injuries he had received from the accused, also admitted that 10 years before that date, he had also received  head injuries in a fight,  but is denying that the old injury might have been mistaken for the recent injury.
Yesterday Kisssoon was attempting to use a magnifying glass on the medical certificate to show that what the doctor was referring to was an old fracture.
The hearing continues on Monday.