The only evidence the police have linking Troy Greene to the 2010 murder of hairdresser Bibi Saymar at her Hague, West Coast Demerara home, is the caution statement he allegedly made, according to the defence yesterday during his High Court trial.
The defence disputed the assertion by the prosecution that the caution statement was freely given by Greene.
Greene is accused of killing Saymar at the instigation of her reputed husband Dennis Persaud, who had also been charged but had the case against him thrown out for insufficient evidence.
Police witness Sergeant Paul Wintz, who told the court that he took Greene’s caution statement, was the lone witness during yesterday’s session. He said he had held a confrontation between Persaud and Greene at the Leonora Police Station about the murder.
According to Wintz, Greene had stated that Persaud called him on his cellular phone and offered him US$1,500 to go to the couple’s home along with one Shane Simon to kill Saymar. In the purported caution statement, Greene said he was picked up by Simon at Market Road,