The trial of Devindra Rooplall, who is accused of bludgeoning his drinking partner to death over a gambling row, continued yesterday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.
The charge against the 21-year-old Rooplall is that on January 16, 2014, at Dochfour Village, East Coast Demerara, he murdered Suresh Goberdhan, called ‘Bud.’ He has pleaded not guilty.
It is the state’s case that on the day in question, sometime before midnight, the two had just left a rum shop, where they were drinking, and were heading to another when Rooplall began beating the deceased with a piece of iron over a gambling argument.