AFTER the depositions of the two absent witnesses in the murder trial of Odinga Greene, called ‘Dingo’ were read to the jury yesterday, the prosecution closed is case.
Instead of leading a defence, counsel for the accused Greene, Mr. Nigel Hughes, decided to make a no-case submission in the absence of the jury, contending that there was no case for his client to answer.

And among other things, he is asking that Odinga Greene be freed at this stage.
Senior State Counsel, Mrs. Judith Mursalin, who along with Lawyer Miss Diana Kaulesar is conducting the prosecution, replied to the defence submissions.
Justice Franklyn Holder disclosed that he would deliver his ruling this morning.
In the event that the judge agrees with the no-case submissions by the defence, the accused will be freed at this stage. But if the judge rules in favour of the prosecution, the accused will be called upon for a defence, and the trial will continue.
In her opening address, State Prosecutor Miss Diana Kaulesar had explained that murder is the unlawful killing of one human being by another, and she emphasized that the human being to have been killed is Nazaleene Mohamed. She said that Odinga Greene is alleged to have killed her sometime between the 2nd and 12th of February, 2007.
According to Ms Kaulesar then, after the prosecution has called all of its witnesses, the prosecution will close its case, and then the accused may or may not lead a defence.
“As I said before, the prosecution has the burden of proving the accused’s guilt in this matter. The accused does not have to prove his innocence. That is a long established principle of our legal system.”
She had also told the jury in her opening address that “should the accused choose to lead a defence, however, then after the defence closes its case, His Honour, the learned trial judge, will then sum up all of the evidence to you, the jury, and then you will retire to consider a verdict”.
The story told by the prosecution was that on the evening of February 2nd, 2007, the accused, Odinga Greene went to the home of the deceased, Nazaleene Mohamed, with a car; and picked her up, along with her friend. When Nazaleene left her home, she was wearing a large quantity of   jewellery.
It is said that she told her mother in the presence of the accused that Odinga had called her and told her to put on all her jewels because she had to look nice where she was going.
The three of them were going to Cayenne. The deceased’s mother never heard from her daughter again.
The decomposing body of a female was found partially buried in a shallow grave at Wisroc. That body was never identified.
The doctor who performed the post-mortem told of carrying out an examination on a decomposed, unidentified body of a female, whom he said might have died of asphyxiation as a result of ‘ligature’ strangulation.
The accused has pleaded innocent to the charge of murder.