Defence attorneys yesterday made no-case submissions after state attorney Judith Gildharie-Mursalin closed her case in the trial of the two men accused of murdering nine-year-old Sade Stoby.
Defence attorneys Raymond Alli and George Thomas are representing Jevon Wharton and Charles Cush, who are accused of the rape and murder of Stoby at Mocha, East Bank Demerara in 2007.
Wharton, 23, and Cush, 21, are on trial before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court, where both Stoby’s mother and Cush’s mother were present when the prosecution closed its case.
Stoby’s mother has been present at every hearing.
Gildharie-Mursalin closed the state’s case after calling her final witness, Wendella Knights, Charles Cush’s aunt,