According to the caution statement admitted into evidence yesterday at the trial of Balram Singh, the accused confessed that he and another man murdered taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukhdeo.
Singh’s defence, led by attorney Jermaine Jervis in association with Clevaun Humphrey, however refuted that their client ever made such a statement and contended that he was beaten and offered inducements to sign statements prepared by the police.
Singh is on trial for the capital offence before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court, in Georgetown. The charge against him is that