GOVERNMENT pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh will testify when the murder trial of Dwayne Jordon, who allegedly axed his reputed wife Claudeene Rampersaud to death at an abandoned home where they once lived, continues today.

Following the doctor’s testimony, the prosecutor, comprising Mrs Konyo Thompson and Ms Renita Singh, is expected to close their case.
Jordon, who has pleaded not guilty of the murder, is represented by Attorney-at-law, Mr. Nigel Hughes. He had suffered injuries, including a gash from which his gut protruded and cut tendons, and he has blamed one ‘Bow-foot” for inflicting his injuries, while remaining silent when asked to explain how his wife had met her death.
At the opening of the trial before Justice Navindra Singh at the Demerara Assizes some days ago, the judge and jury heard that after Claudeene Rampersaud had been found dead with chop wounds, the accused  was found with a punctured  abdomen and cut tendons in a nearby clump of bushes.
The woman’s dead body, when found, was taken to the mortuary, while the accused was taken to hospital, and later charged with murder.
The investigations that followed examined how the accused had sustained his injuries, and whether the injuries resulted from a fight.
Reports are that when the accused was found in a clump of bushes not far from where the dead woman’s body had been found, he remained silent on whether he knew how his wife got injured.
But when asked who had injured him and left him in a helpless condition, he replied, “Bowfoot.”
Mrs. Thompson had told the jury what to expect from the various witnesses. She begged jurors not to entertain the consideration of sympathy for the accused.
Police Inspector Gemaine Harper from the Leonora Police Station said that, during the month of June 2007, he was a corporal of police stationed at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station when he acted on information received of an alleged murder committed on one Claudeene Rampersaud, a female East Indian, aged 34, of Den Amstel, West Coast, Demerara by one Dwayne Jordon, aged 44, also of Den Amstel.
Witness Ryan Lewis, called “Bowfoot”, testified that Claudene Rampersaud was his sister–in-law, and she used to live at 24 Back Street, Den Amstel with one Dwayne Jordan, the accused.
He said that on Thursday, June 14, 2007, he and his reputed wife, Shellon Payne, were passing along Back Street at about 10.30 p.m. when, while passing the home where Claudeene used to live, “we heard screams.
“We were about 15 feet from the house, and I called out to Claudeene, but there was no answer. I went into the yard, climbed the front stairs and knocked open the door.
“Then the accused started to fire chops with a hatchet which was in his right hand. He also had a knife in his left hand, and was attacking me and Shellon. I was injured on my left forehead and right middle finger, and got two stabs in my upper back.
“By that time, Shellon was also injured on the left side of her face. I grabbed the accused and we started a fight and rolled downstairs. Still fighting the accused in the yard, I started to feel weak, so I bore the accused and run out of the yard. Some distance away, I lost consciousness.
“I regained consciousness at the West Demerara Hosital later that night. I spent six days in hospital.”
Cross-examined by Mr Hughes, witness said he did not know why the woman had screamed, and that he was sure it was Dwayne Jordan who had attacked him. He answered, “I did not go into the house; I was on the landing when the accused started to fire chops.