TODAY, Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall is expected to sum up the evidence in the trial of
Shannon Cox, who is accused of the 2017 murder of 16-year-old Brian Charles Yearwood.

Cox, 24, is currently on trial at the Demerara High Court for the capital offence of murder. He has denied that, on April 29, 2017, he murdered Yearwood during a school concert at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara (EBD.)

Following the summing up today, the judge will hand over the case to the 12-member jury for the consideration of the verdict.

On Monday, Cox’s co-accused, Andy Daniel Peters, was freed by the judge, after his attorney, Latchmi Rahamat, successfully made a no-case submission, on the grounds of insufficient
evidence led by the prosecution.

Cox’s attorney, Madan Kissoon, had also made a no-case submission. However, the judge overruled it and called upon Cox to lead his defence.

As he broke down in tears, Cox told the judge, “I didn’t have no problem with no one. I don’t know the person who dead. Is when I go at the station they show me a picture of him [Yearwood] when the police lock me up… I co-operate with them [police] because I know me
ain’t do nothing ma’am…”

According to reports, Yearwood, of Grove, EBD, was involved in a heated argument with two persons when he was fatally stabbed. He was rushed to the nearby Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.