JUSTICE Navindra Singh, trial judge in the abandoned Den Amstel house murder trial in which Dwayne Jordon has pleaded not guilty to murdering his reputed wife Claudeene Rampersaud, will sum up the evidence to the jury tomorrow; thereafter, he will hand over the case to the mixed jury for them to deliberate and return a vedict.

Defence counsel Mr. Nigel Hughes is representing the accused Dwayne Jordon, who suffered injuries, including a slash to the abdomen that had his guts protruding and cut tendons. He has blamed another man for inflicting his injuries.
Supporting his not-guilty story in a statement from the dock yesterday, Jordon told the judge and jury   that he was in the habit of going to the main road to meet his wife at nights when she was returning from duty as a security guard. He claimed he did not see her on the night in question, but acting on information that she had gone into the building with another man, he entered the building where they once lived and was attacked by a man with an axe and a knife. He said he was slashed in the abdomen and the veins at the back of his lower legs were cut.
He claimed the police took him from the nearby bushes where he had been lying and carried him to hospital for medical attention. However, he denied speaking to them.
The dead body of the woman, which was found in an abandoned home, was taken to the mortuary while the accused was taken to hospital, and later charged with murder.
The investigations that followed delved into the question of how the accused came to sustain his injuries, and whether it had anything to do with his involvement in a fight.
Reports are that when the accused was found in a clump of bushes not far from the house in which the woman was believed to have been murdered, he remained silent when asked by the police whether he had known how his wife got injured.
DPP lawyers Mrs. Konyo Thompson and Miss Renita Singh are conducting the case for the prosecution.
In separate addresses to the jury yesterday, defence counsel Mr. Hughes urged the   jury to return a verdict of not guilty, in keeping with the evidence; while the prosecutor, Mrs Thompson, requested a verdict of guilty.