DEFENCE witness Winifrede Archibald from Texas, USA who had been expected to testify via Skype, surprised spectators when she turned up in person to testify at the Demerara Assizes yesterday.
Charles Anthony Woolford is on trial for the murder of his wife Latoya on February 8, 2009.But the witness who has migrated to the USA testified that she had once lived in the upper flat of a home in Festival City near to the Woolfords and disclosed that ‘Andy’ was the man behind the scene who could have committed the crime.
According to her although she once rented her car to ‘Andy’, she could not remember his surname.
The witness, however, rejected a suggestion by State Prosecutrix, Miss Mercedes Thompson that the reason why she could not remember the man’s surname was because ‘Andy’ does not exist.
Both the defence and the prosecution lawyers made their final addresses to the jury yesterday. The defence requested a verdict of not guilty while the prosecution called for a verdict in keeping with the evidence and the oath they had taken.
Justice Brassington Reynolds said that he would sum up the evidence to the jury on Friday morning at ten o’clock.
Attorneys-at-Law Peter Hugh and Latchmi Rahamat are the defence counsel. The accused will know his fate on Friday.
Prosecuting are Mercedes Thompson, Orinthea Schmidt and Michael Shahoud from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions.