Non Pariel robbery/murder trial
Star witness admits attending two ID parades
BIBI Nazeema Ishack, the star witness in the Non Pariel murder trial who testified that she had identified one of two masked robbers at an ID parade on Friday, admitted under cross-examination that she had attended 2 parades but had failed to identify anyone at the first parade. She also denied a  suggestion from defence counsel Lyndon Amsterdam that the reason why she identified the accused at the second parade was because she was told to pick out the number five person on parade.
The woman said that she was robbed of $143, 000 one night in September, 2006, when two of three robbers entered her home and demanded money and gold.
According to her, her  husband, Chandrapaul  Persaud, called ‘Kero man’, was pelting  bottles at another robber in the  yard, when one of the two robbers in the house shouted to his companion outside, saying, “finish the man.”
The witness said that following those instructions, she heard three gun shots. Later, the men in the house left, and drove away with her husband’s car, which was found abandoned at Paradise.
She said that her husband was found dead from gunshot wounds. He was lying on the road outside the house.
Further cross-examined by defence counsel, witness denied a suggestion that her evidence which  stated that one of the two men in the house had called  on the man outside asking him to finish the man was new evidence.
When she learnt that that evidence was not in the deposition, she said that if it was not recorded, then she might have omitted to tell the magistrate that.
The witness said that although the accused to whom she had given the money had part of his face covered by a mask, she was able to recognize him by his eyes, his nose and height. At the second ID parade, she had picked out Cyon Collier as the man to whom she had given her gold and money.
Collier had pleaded not guilty and is being represented by Attorney-at-Law, Mr. Lyndon Amsterdam.
State prosecutor Mrs. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, who, in association with Mrs.  Teshana James Lake, is appearing for the prosecution, hopes to call 11 witnesses in support of her case.
The hearing continues today.

Star witness admits attending two ID parades
BIBI Nazeema Ishack, the star witness in the Non Pariel murder trial who testified that she had identified one of two masked robbers at an ID parade on Friday, admitted under cross-examination that she had attended 2 parades but had failed to identify anyone at the first parade.
She also denied a  suggestion from defence counsel Lyndon Amsterdam that the reason why she identified the accused at the second parade was because she was told to pick out the number five person on parade.
The woman said that she was robbed of $143, 000 one night in September, 2006, when two of three robbers entered her home and demanded money and gold.
According to her, her  husband, Chandrapaul  Persaud, called ‘Kero man’, was pelting  bottles at another robber in the  yard, when one of the two robbers in the house shouted to his companion outside, saying, “finish the man.”
The witness said that following those instructions, she heard three gun shots. Later, the men in the house left, and drove away with her husband’s car, which was found abandoned at Paradise.
She said that her husband was found dead from gunshot wounds. He was lying on the road outside the house.
Further cross-examined by defence counsel, witness denied a suggestion that her evidence which  stated that one of the two men in the house had called  on the man outside asking him to finish the man was new evidence.
When she learnt that that evidence was not in the deposition, she said that if it was not recorded, then she might have omitted to tell the magistrate that.
The witness said that although the accused to whom she had given the money had part of his face covered by a mask, she was able to recognize him by his eyes, his nose and height. At the second ID parade, she had picked out Cyon Collier as the man to whom she had given her gold and money.
Collier had pleaded not guilty and is being represented by Attorney-at-Law, Mr. Lyndon Amsterdam.
State prosecutor Mrs. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, who, in association with Mrs.  Teshana James Lake, is appearing for the prosecution, hopes to call 11 witnesses in support of her case.
The hearing continues today.