Andrew Albert who is accused of the August 2010 murder of 43-year-old Nandalall Bopat, yesterday denied the charge after being indicted before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.
The allegation against Albert is that on August 10, 2010 at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, he murdered Bopat.
State Counsel Narissa Leander, in her opening address to the court, said that on the day in question, the accused who was armed with a knife, dealt Bopat several stabs about his body from which he later succumbed.
The court heard that the two had been involved in an argument.
Leander said the results of a post-mortem examination revealed that Bopat died from perforation of the lungs, due to stab wounds.
The dead man’s wife, Doreen Sahadeo–Siranauth who testified at yesterday’s hearing, recalled receiving the news that her husband had been stabbed after which she travelled to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he later died.
Under cross-examination by defence attorney George Thomas, the witness vehemently denied that her husband “was a bully” “to his entire family.
“He used to give me one, one slap. We used to gat we one, one ups-and-downs and problem yes, but he neva beat me up,” the woman firmly maintained.
Albert lived across the street from Siranauth and her husband at De Groot Housing Scheme, and also worked with Bopat who was a fisherman.
Four of the six state witnesses have thus far testified.
The trial continues this afternoon.
Leander appears for the state in association with attorney Teshanna James-Lake.
