DESIREE Jeffers is said to have participated in the murder of her policeman lover, Igriss Bobb Blackman, whose dead body was fished out of a septic tank at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara in 2006.

Witnesses led by Prosecutrix, Miss Natasha Backer told the jury that Ms. Jeffers, who used to reside in the United States of America, was friendly with the deceased, who used to oversee her property when she was out of Guyana.

The jury was told that problems developed in the friendship when Ms. Jeffers discovered that another woman had been involved in the affair, thereby constituting a triangular love affair.

It was alleged that the now deceased Blackman had, at one time, ended up in court with Ms. Jeffers as a result of an alleged assault; and later, their relationship deteriorated to the point where Blackman had been reported missing.

Several searches had been made for him without success, until one day when a member of a police search party found Blackman’s dead body wrapped in a carpet and deposited in a septic tank on the premises of Ms. Jeffers’ home.

Ms. Jeffers has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Igriss Bobb Blackman at this trial, and is being represented by Mr. Peter Hugh, in association with attorney-at-law, Miss Latchmie Rahamat.

Justice Dawn Gregory will sum up the evidence tomorrow.

(By George Barclay)