THE prosecution in the murder trial of Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ resumed yesterday, with Justice Diana Insanally continuing a voir dire (trial within a trial) to determine the admissibility of an alleged confession statement by the accused. The smaller trial, at the Demerara Assizes, began last Thursday when State Counsel Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, prosecuting, attempted to put the document in evidence but Defence Counsel Lyndon Amsterdam objected.
At the conclusion of the current proceedings, the judge will determine whether or not to admit the attestation.
The mixed jury sitting in the case previously heard that the scene at Victoria Four Corner, East Coast Demerara, on September 23, 2006, was likened to that in a motion picture as the accused, dressed in black with a gun slung across his back, rode up on a motorcycle and began shooting.
Two brothers, Ray Walcott called ‘Sugar’, 34, and his younger sibling, Carl Andrews known as ‘Alo’, 31, were gunned down on that early morning.
Following the shooting, the shooter stopped a bus and the driver, who knew him, told him to cool it and explained that he would take him wherever he wanted to go.
Collier dropped off at Factory Road, Paradise, also on East Coast Demerara, and police recovered spent shells from the scene of the murder. Those were submitted to the ballistics expert for analysis, the prosecutor said.