WHEN the Fish Cleaners murder trial continued at the Demerara Assizes on Thursday, the jury was told that a row on the job led to Quaison Jones, called ‘Blondie’, stabbing to death fellow Fish Cleaner Marlon Greene on January 17, 2011 at a wharf at Meadow Bank in Georgetown.

Justice Navindra Singh is presiding at this trial, in which Mrs. Judith Mursalin of the DPP Chambers is prosecuting. Mr. George Thomas is defending.

Andy Vieira, a fish cleaner at the wharf, said the incident occurred in bright daylight when a row began between Blondie and Marlon over an old story.

Vieira said that the two fish cleaners clashed in the twinkling of an eye, and he saw Blondie on top of Marlon executing three apparent boring actions.

However, he said: “I saw one wound.” He said a bleeding Marlon was taken to hospital, where he died.
In her opening address to the jury the prosecutrix had said that the prosecution would have to provide the necessary elements to show that Marlon died as a result of injuries received, and that it was Blondie who had inflicted the injuries on him with the intention to do serious bodily harm.

The trial is continuing.
Written By George Barclay