As Kwesi Wilson bled from fatal stab wounds, Eon Williams was seen running away, the sister of the dead man testified in the High Court yesterday.
Shaundel Wilson was among seven prosecution witnesses who testified when the trial of Williams began, after a new jury was empanelled in the court of Justice Roxane George.
Williams is accused of stabbing Wilson to death at Kitty in 2007.
Police witnesses Derwin Rankin, Ralph Park and Cedric Gravesande were the first three persons to give evidence along with Kurt Lachish, Ryan Wilson, Shaundel Wilson and Parlene Halley.
Park and Halley were not cross-examined by defence counsel Clement Richardson, while the others were.
Wilson’s sister told the court that from her bedroom window, she saw her brother and Williams on their bridge arguing. She subsequently went outside to see what the commotion was about and she found her brother clutching his abdomen and walking to their house, while Williams was running away. She then raised an alarm and her brother, Ryan Wilson, who was at home at the time, went to her.
Ryan Wilson told the court about what happened after his sister called him. He too mentioned seeing his brother holding his abdomen and what appeared to be his intestines protruding.
Lachish, who is a friend of both Wilson and Williams, told the court that he, Williams, Wilson and another friend identified as “Jermaine” went together on the seawall on the night of the murder. He said that they all returned to his home at Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, where he went into his yard, leaving the three men on his bridge talking. A few minutes later, he said, he heard loud talking and subsequently looked through his door and saw Wilson and Williams arguing. Wilson and Williams then entered his yard and he told them if they would like to fight, they should do so outside of his premises, at which point they both left his yard.
Lachish, who appeared very uneasy and was constantly moving in the witness box, at one point asked the prosecutor after making a statement, “Am I correct prosecutor?”
After giving his evidence, Lachish was cross-examined by Richardson. When asked if he had seen where Williams and Wilson went after they left his yard, he replied “I did not see where they went.” He further asked Richardson, in a loud tone, “Mr Richardson is nah de same question you ask me over deh at de small court? Is de same question you asking me again.”
The case will continue today.
Nohar Bahadur
Meanwhile, in Justice Franklyn Holder’s court, where Sherwin Barnwell is being tried for the murder of Nohar Bahadur, two more police witnesses, Hamlet Da Silva and Morgan Chalmers, gave their evidence and were cross-examined by defence counsel Norma Lewis. The trial will resume tomorrow when more witnesses are expected to be presented. It is alleged that Barnwell murdered Nohar Bahadur in 2006, at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, by beating him to death.
