Defence counsel Lyndon Amsterdam yesterday asked the jury to believe in the innocence of murder accused Cyon Collier, saying that he had an alibi while also suggesting that a now dead wanted man could have committed the crime.
It is alleged that Collier, known as ‘Picture Boy,’ murdered Chandrapaul 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.
Amsterdam, in a five-and-half hour long address to the jury and Justice Winston Patterson, said that his client was