THIS morning, Justice Navindra Singh who is presiding in the Meadow Bank Wharf fish cleaner’s murder will sum up the evidence to the jury.

Then he will hand over the case to the eight men and four women of the jury for their consideration and verdict in relation to accused Quaison Jones, also called ‘Blondie’.
The case for the prosecution is that on Monday 17th January, 2011 following a row over the alleged toppling of Blondie’s fish cart sometime ago by Marlon, Blondie viciously attacked Marlon with a knife, thereby severing his windpipe and vascular vein in his neck.
Fish cleaners took him in Vieira’s bus to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he succumbed.
Following police investigations, Blondie was arrested and charged with murder. However, he gave a statement denying the killing and blaming it on two other persons.
At the trial, the police corporal to whom he gave the statement, admitted under cross-examination to defence counsel Mr. George Thomas, that he could not recall whether he had made any attempt to identify the alleged killers that the accused spoke about.
And in a statement from the dock the accused Blondie said that on the day in question he was attacked by three men, including Marlon who was armed with a cutlass while the two others had knives.
The accused told the judge and jury that he was holding on to Marlon who was armed with a cutlass when suddenly he heard him (Marlon) shout, “Ow – ah get bore.” The accused insinuated that it was one of the men who had been attacking him who accidentally bore Marlon instead.
Defence Counsel Thomas said that all the witnesses were saying that they had seen the accused cuffing away or stabbing away at the deceased.
And according to him the evidence about stabbing away and the fact that the deceased only received one stab gave credence to the accused story about “Ah get bore”.
On the other hand, Prosecutrix Mrs. Judith Mursalin treated the statement of the accused as a ‘Nancy’ story and urged them to find that it would be impossible, if his story was true for him to have survived without a single injury despite his tale that knives were aimed at him.
And in answer to the defence counsel’s query about what happened to the stabbing and cuffing attempts that the witnesses saw, Mrs. Mursalin declared, “They might have been missing in their attempts.”
The defence counsel and the prosecutor addressed the jury yesterday.

(By George Barclay)