– in Carl Thomas murder trial

PRESIDING Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed jury yesterday heard that the accused, Renwick Alexander, was the person who had used a knife to inflict the fatal injury on Carl Thomas on November 3, 2010.

Lear Porter, the bother of the deceased Thomas, yesterday testified that he was present when the accused, whom he had known for 45 years, came to his shop on November 3, 2010, and started “calling my brother Carl Thomas a cross”.

“My brother told him he is a bigger cross. My brother, who was in the shop, was leaving when Alexander whipped out a knife from his waist and stabbed my brother in the chest.

“My brother made two steps backward and he fell on the Tennessee bench. My brother got up and said to me ‘Pompey just stab me’. My brother’s intestines were protruding; he was bleeding. He was taken to the Public Hospital. Subsequently, my aunt who is a nurse at the hospital called me and told me that he had died.”

The prosecution is being conducted by senior state counsel Mrs. Judith Mursalin. Attorney-at-law Mr. Huckumchand is appearing for the defence. The trial is continuing.

(By George Barclay)