THREE voir dires (trials within trials) conducted by Justice Madame Dawn Gregory to determine admissibility of caution statements, ended with the judge finding that all three statements given to the police by the accused were voluntary. 

As a consequence, the statements were admitted into evidence.
The accused facing trial for the murder of their step-father are Bibi Shamiza Khan, also called “Sham”; Hoosman Khan called “Strongman”; and Bibi Farida Khan called “Pum” have been indicted for the murder of Motilall Singh on September 7, 2009.
In their caution statements which were read to the jury, the accused related that following a broken relationship between their mother and step-father overseas, the mother sent money to them with instructions that they should use that money to hire someone to kill their step-father Motilall Singh, who was at the time on a visit to Guyana. The statements gave accounts of places they had visited and the persons they contracted in their search for a killer.

State Lawyers, Ms. Natasha Backer and Ms. Mercedes Thompson are prosecuting.
Senior Counsel, Mr. Bernard Dos Santos, is defence counsel. The original trial had ended with a hung jury.
One of the witnesses who testified yesterday was Keith Boodram, a former policeman, driver/vendor and rum shop owner.
Boodram admitted that initially, the police had picked him up as a suspect in the crime.
But after he had given a statement which revealed that Bibi Farida Khan had asked him to carry out the killing of Singh for a certain sum of money, to which he replied: “Me nah in dat.” But the witness added: “Just as I was driving off, Farida threw a package of money in the bus. I counted it and it amounted to US$700. I used the money on my business, but I did not take part in the killing.”
Boodram was made a witness for the prosecution.
In answer to Mr. Dos Santos under cross-examination, the witness said that he was not known as a killer and could not tell why the Khans
should seek his help to kill their step-father.
Mr. Dos Santos submitted to the witness and others that the police had been involved in a conspiracy to get the accused to sign untrue statements in order to prove the case
The trial continues.