More than a decade after Rajesh Singh and Fazil Hakim were gunned down at a rum shop in Mon Repos, East Coast Deme-rara (ECD), Mark Royden Williams called ‘Smallie’ is facing trial for the double murder.
Williams is currently on trial before Justice Sandil Kissoon and a jury at the High Court in Georgetown.
The indictment against him to which he has pleaded not guilty, states that on December 16th, 2007 he murdered Singh and Hakim.
In her opening address to the jury, Prosecutor Lisa Cave said
that on the night in question the now dead men were patrons of Narendra Mukhram’s liquor bar, when the accused and others descended on the premises.
She said that the accused and his accomplices carried out a robbery at the Agriculture Road, Mon Repos, ECD establishment, during which Singh and Hakim were shot and killed.
The rum shop is located in front of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).
Cave told the jury that the state intends to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, that it was Williams who had committed the murders.
A voir dire is currently underway, with the main trial set to continue tomorrow morning at 9.
Williams is being represented by a battery of attorneys, led by Nigel Hughes.
