THE June 30, 2011 murder trial of septuagenarian Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris continued yesterday in the High Court before Justice Navindra Singh with several police witnesses testifying. The most interesting revelations were that the crime scene photographs were all defective and the original post mortem report lodged at Alberttown Police Station was missing.The first police witness, Lance Corporal Desmond Johnny who is the Crime Scene Examiner/Photographer said he went to Lot 42 Robb Street after he received instructions from his senior officer. He gave a detailed description of the location of the house which he entered and observed what appeared to be blood on one of the chairs in the living room. A bullet and a bullet hole were prominent in the wooden wall.

He told the court that the bedrooms were not ransacked and he took possession of two .38 bullets found at the scene and also took photos of the crime scene before he went back to Brickdam Police station.
He said that he later discovered that the films (photos) were defective and had to be discarded.

The second police witness, Sergeant Eon Jackson, who is attached to the Firearms and Ammunition Examination Section at Eve Leary said he examined the two special bullets fired from either a .38 revolver or a.357 revolver. Only private security and the Guyana Police Force use those bullets, he said.

He contended that under examination, both bullets were fired from the same weapon and from one bullet a whitish substance was seen but not tested.

The third police witness, Detective Constable Rondell Gouveia of Alberttown CID told the court that on July 30, 2011 he received information of the alleged murder of Fiedtkou-Parris and went with a party of policemen to secure the crime scene.

He told the court that he made a copy of the original and lodged the original at Alberttown Police Station. It is now missing.
Orin Hinds, called ‘Redman’, of Burnham Boulevard, Mocha, East Bank Demerara; Kevin October called Troy’, of Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara; Cleon Hinds, and Roy Jacobs called ‘Chippie’ or ‘Black Boy’ of Evans Street, Charlestown, are currently facing Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12-member jury for the murder.

According to the indictment, the four men murdered Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris pursuant to an arrangement whereby money was to be passed from one person to another.
On the evening of June 30, 2011, two men went to Fiedtkou-Parris’s 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.