ANTHONY Morrison, who is before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and a 12-member jury in the High Court, yesterday led his defence, and in an unsworn statement, told the court from the prisoner’s dock that he was innocent of the charge of murder.
The charge against the accused is that in May 2012, he murdered Donna Thomas at their Lot 65 Cross and D’Urban Streets, Georgetown home.Morrison yesterday said that on May 25, 2010, he left his D’Urban and Cross Street, Georgetown apartment to go out at about 14:00hrs, because he had to work from 19:00hrs that day.
He said, “I didn’t do her anything, and I want to know who killed her.”
The trial will continue today, and both the defence and State will make their closing statements.
Government pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh testified that the cause of death was asphyxiation due to compression to the neck, compounded by blunt-force cranial trauma.
He added that the deceased had 16 incised wounds to one hand, while the other had six such wounds, considered to be defensive wounds.
Dr. Singh told the court that the wounds were not fatal, but contributed to significant bleeding, which resulted in the victim dying of being deprived of oxygen when the heart stopped.
The post mortem was performed on June 1, 2012, five days after the corpse was found. It is believed that the woman was murdered between May 26-27, 2012.
At the end of Morrison’s first trial before Justice Navindra Singh last year, a jury was unable to arrive at a unanimous verdict.