FOLLOWING the Tuesday voir dire in the High Court murder trial of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris before Justice Navindra Singh, the first police witness testified yesterday after the caution statement of one of the four accused was tendered as evidence.Detective Corporal Chaitram Sewsankar told the court that he was present when a caution statement was recorded in writing in his presence by a colleague who is now deceased.

Reading from the statement taken from accused Cleon Hinds, Sewsankar said: “Officer let me tell you what part I played in the murder.”

It said he was asked to be part of a plan along with others, including his brother, to murder a woman for money. The statement continued: “A big man paid us money to throw down a big woman near Trans.”

According to the statement Cleon Hinds said a gun was borrowed to kill the woman because of a land dispute.

Hinds stated that his brother, Orin Hinds, went on the ‘wok’ but stayed at South Park that night. Later they told him to go to Black Boy’s house.

The cop added that Cleon Hinds drove around there (Robb Street) and figured the lady was dead because he saw a lot of police there.

Sewsankar noted that Cleon Hinds said a few days later he collected $80,000 from ‘Troy’ for him and his brother and after they heard the police were investigating the murder they got rid of the gun.

In the statement Cleon Hinds said: “Meh really sorry fuh de lady boss man meh ain’t even know how I got in this thing.”

The second police witness to testify yesterday was Detective Sergeant Rodwell Sarabo who told the court he assisted with the investigations and took a caution statement from another accused, Roy Jacobs.

The trial continues today at 09:00 hrs.

It is alleged that on the evening of June 30, 2011, two men went to Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris’s Lot 42 Robb Street home asking for ‘Auntie,’ a title by which she was called. They were directed up a side step and as Fiedtkou-Parris emerged from her bedroom, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot her several times to the upper part of her body.
The men then jumped into a waiting car, while the injured woman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The four persons accused of the murder are: Cleon Hinds, Orin Hinds, called “Red Man,” Kevin October known as “Troy,” and Roy Jacobs, usually referred to as “Chippy.”