JUSTICE Franklyn Holder will sum up the evidence in the Mahaica felony murder on Friday and then he would hand over the case to the mixed jury for their consideration and verdict.

Attorneys-at-law representing the defence, Mr. Trenton Lake and Mr. George Thomas, and Mrs. Judith Mursalin for the prosecution, addressed the jury yesterday , urging them to return not guilty and guilty verdicts respectively.
Among other things, the defence referred to inconsistencies and contradictions in the evidence of identification which they said entitled their clients to verdicts of not guilty.
But on the other hand, Mrs. Mursalin told the jury that the accused Shawn Thom, the gunman, and the bike man, Orrin David, were properly identified by the witnesses. And she asked the mixed jury to return a verdict in accordance with the evidence led and the oath they had taken.
According to the prosecution’s case the accused Shawn Thom and Orrin David attacked the Bishundials at Hope, East Coast Demerara, on Friday, August 20, 2010 in a murder/robbery bid when Lakhram Bishundial was shot to death.
And the robbers stole a money bag with $500, 000 which Totaram Bishundial had withdrawn from a bank in Georgetown to purchase items for an upcoming wedding ceremony.
The prosecutor had also told the jury, “Your duty is to examine the role each accused played since you will have to make a determination and be satisfied not only that each accused was present at the time of the commission of the robbery but that each of them had knowledge that violence would be used in the perpetration of the crime and also that each was there in order to actually assist the other in some way.”
The hearing continues on Friday.

(By George Barclay)