PROSECUTRIX Miss Mercedes Thomson on Monday closed the State’s case in the High Court against Alvin Barclay who is accused of the murder of Yohan Hunte called ‘Roof’, ‘Man on the roof’, and ‘Cat-eyed boy’.

Barclay is said to have fatally stabbed ‘Man on the roof’ during a fight on 2nd September, 2012.
However, at the closure of the prosecution’s case on Monday after four witnesses had been called, defence counsel Mr. George Thomas elected to make a no-case submission in the absence of the jury.
The prosecution had disagreed that self-defence could be proper plead.
And Justice Diana Insanally, who heard the submissions and replies from both counsel yesterday, overruled the submission and called on the accused for a defence.
Accused Alvin Barclay, a barber, began his defence with an unsworn statement from the dock in which he claimed that he had acted in self defence when his attacker, now deceased, was chasing him because he denied him the use of his electrical “drop-cord”.
Counsel on both sides will address the jury today. The prosecution is alleging that the accused had used a scissors to commit the offence, an allegation which the defence denied.

(By George Barclay)