THE jury in the Houston murder case at the Demerara Assizes heard yesterday that the accused, Kevin Verwayne told Police about jealousy in a caution statement.
The document, which was the subject of a voir dire (trial within a trial), following allegations that it had been secured through the use of Police violence, was read to the jurors after Justice Navindra Singh ruled that it was given freely and voluntarily.State Prosecutor Ms. Judith Musalin, in her opening address said the accused had told his friends that his girlfriend, Farida Ramdeen called ‘Suzy’ was unfaithful.
He said she used to entertain men at his home when he had gone to work and it had reached a stage where he could take it no more, so he killed her by drowning and buried her with trash.
But Mursalin, in association with Mr. Lloyd Conway, was about to tender a written attestation which she said the accused had given the Police, surrounding the same confession, when Defence Counsel, Mr. Melvyn Duke objected.
He said he has been instructed that the written documentation was not obtained in accordance with the Judges’ Rules.
Smaller trial
This led to the smaller trial, in the absence of the jury, which ended with the ruling yesterday when the testament was tendered in evidence through Corporal Henry of Ruimveldt Police Station.
The policeman testified that, in the presence of witnesses, Verwayne whom he had told about the death of his lover and cautioned replied that he called a taxi and he and the woman
traveled in it to Houston High Bridge.
They disembarked the vehicle and walked down a muddy dam where he disclosed to her that he knew when he left for work, she would have men going his house and having sex with her although he works hard and gives her all his money.
The prisoner said he hugged her up and jumped into the water with her and drowned her before burying her under some trash.
He said he took a bath, left home and went and told his cousin Orvin Smith what he did to Suzy.
He also confessed to another cousin, Blacks, who took him to the station where he reported to the Police that he had killed Suzy and took them to where he drowned her.
The trial is continuing.