A jury yesterday heard that murder accused Christopher Da Silva confessed to stabbing 17-year-old Reyad Khan, who was at the time accosting him while armed with a gun.
Although Da Silva’s caution statement was admitted into evidence at his trial yesterday, defence attorney Maxwell McKay was adamant that his client gave no such statement to police.
In the statement, which was read by Detective Inspector Herbert Henry, the accused reportedly told lawmen that he was standing on the road talking to his girlfriend, when Khan approached him with two other men and asked, “If I want to done it now.”
Da Silva, according to the statement, said that Khan slapped him, while one of the other men stood behind him with a knife.