WHEN the John Street murder trial began yesterday, the jury heard that the accused Renwick Alexander had told the police that the deceased Carl Thomas, called ‘Dog’, was a junkie (a person consumed by an addiction) who had attacked him with a knife.According to the police witness, Alexander, who is facing trial for knifing ‘Dog’ to death had added to his oral confession, “he is one of the persons called a junkie and he has always been disrespectful to me. On this day he attacked me with a knife. I took away the knife and stab him.”
Thomas who was wounded in the abdomen was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he subsequently died.
Police investigations led to Alexander being arrested and charged with the murder that was allegedly committed on the 3rd of November, 2010.
At his trial yesterday, he pleaded not guilty and was being represented by Attorney-at-law, Mr. Huckumchand. Senior State counsel Mrs. Judith Mursalin is prosecuting.
The hearing continues today before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed jury.