MURDER accused, Jevon Wharton and Charles Cush, who allegedly raped and murdered nine-year-old schoolgirl, Sade Stoby, in November 2007, will know their fate today. 

Yesterday afternoon, leading Prosecutrix, Mrs. Judith Mursalin recalled the evidence in which the girl was brutally raped and murdered in the bushes at Mocha, and urged the jury to return a verdict of murder against both accused.
Addressing the jury, Mrs. Mursalin said: “This is a time for justice for Sade against the accused who not only took away her virginity but everything else, leaving her with a ruptured hymen.”
According to her, the accused, who had raped the girl, proceeded to kill her because they knew what they had done, and sensed that she would report the matter to the police.
They then tried to lie their way out by attributing the injuries on their penises, and scratches on their shoulders to sources other than the rape felony.
The prosecutrix scoffed at what she termed the “silly defence” of the defence lawyers who would like the jury to believe that their clients were beaten in order to give the police a statement and warned the jury, “Do not be side-tracked; do not be fooled.”
She informed the jury that the learned trial judge will address them on the issue of circumstantial evidence today and would tell them about the inferences that could be drawn from that evidence..
On the other hand, defence counsel, Mr. Raymond Ali, for accused Wharton, and Mr. George Thomas for accused Cush, urged the jury to give their clients the benefit of the doubt by returning a verdict of not guilty.
After summing up the evidence today, Justice Navindra Singh will hand over the case to the jury for their consideration and verdict.

(By George Barclay)