THE voir dire (a trial within a trial) to determine the admissibility of four caution statements by the four accused in the payment of US$700 for a stepfather’s death is continuing at the Demerara Assizes.

Conducting the voir dire is Justice Navindra Singh, the presiding judge, who will decide whether or not those statements are admissible and should be admitted in evidence or thrown out.
The accused Bissoondial Mahadeo, Hoosman Khan, Shamiza Khan and Farida Khan, all of Windsor Forest, West Coast of Demerara, are on trial for the murder of Motilal Singh which occurred on September 7, 2009.
A post-mortem revealed that he had been stabbed 21 times.
The witnesses who have so far testified in the voir dire are Constable Keith Brandford, Sergeant Naraine Lall, Constable Mohan Ramdolai and Corporal Cranston Fraser.
The hearing is continuing.

(George Barclay)