THE 2012 trial into the murders of Anna Catherina liquor store owner Jennifer Persaud and her sons Afridi Bacchus, six, and Jadon Persaud, 18 months, who was killed in 2012, during a home invasion, continued on Tuesday, September 24, 2019.
The former reputed wife of murder accused Abishai Caesar, was recalled by the state for further cross-examination, before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a mixed 12-member jury at the High Court and gave evidence against her ex-lover.

Caesar denied the charges which stated that, between September 21, 2012, and September 22, 2012, at Sea View Anna Catherina, he murdered 41-year-old Jennifer Persaud, called “Jenny”, and her sons Afridi Bacchus, six, and Jadon Ernest, 18 months.
Phillips told the court that during September 2012, she was 17 year old at the time and lived in Anna Catherina with her reputed husband Caesar.

Zoey Phillips was grilled by defense attorney Maxwell McKay, while the state was represented by Prosecutors Lisa Cave and Seeta Bishundial.

Phillips had earlier testified that she lived with Caesar and Persaud was her neighbour.
“Abishai said to me that he was going over to Jenny to get some money because he was broke,” Phillip had told the court during her first appearance.

The couple then went into the lower flat of their home, into the kitchen, where Caesar armed himself with a wood-handle knife, a pair of green gloves, while being clad in a 3/4 pants.

The witness said that Caesar went to the back of their house and gained entry into their neighbour’s yard through an opening in the zinc fence.

Phillips told the court that her neighbour had clear glass windows and she was able to see Caesar in the woman’s home by peeping through the louvre window in her bedroom.
After seeing Caesar as he went up the step in Persaud’s home, Phillips claimed that she went to bed and fell asleep.

However, she was awakened by the sound of a woman screaming and sat in her bed. Thirty minutes later, Caesar called for her, and she went downstairs into the kitchen and opened the back door for him.

According to Phillips, Caesar had a small cardboard beer box in his hands, and told her that that was all he got from raiding Jennifer’s home.

The box contained a number of $20 and $100 bills which amounted to $3,000. He also came back with the pair of gloves and a knife, both of which had what appeared to be blood. There was also what appeared to be spots of blood on his pair of pants.
The witness disclosed that her reputed husband told her that Jennifer awoke and saw him inside of the home and he killed her because she saw his face and knew him well.
Caesar, Phillips explained, told her that, while he was stabbing Jennifer, the older son woke and saw him. This caused him to kill the older son plus the baby.

The couple then went to the sea walls, where Caesar threw the knife into the river. Then they went into the street and Caesar threw the gloves and pants into some bushes.
The witness explained that they went back home and into bed where they slept.
The trial continues today.