Defence witness challenges autopsy findings

Cyon Collier

Dr Dalgleish Joseph, the final witness in the Cyon Collier murder trial, yesterday sought to challenge the findings of the autopsy performed on Chandrapaul Persaud.

Collier, known as ‘Picture Boy’, is charged with murdering Persaud, 34, called ‘Kero Man,’ on September 30, 2006. Persaud was shot by one of three gunmen who launched an attack on him outside his Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara home, moments after he drove his vehicle into the yard.

When the trial resumed before Justice Winston Patterson, Joseph was called to the stand by defence counsel Lyndon Amsterdam, who made an application to have the witness deemed an expert in