| The trial of a 27-year-old carpenter accused of killing another man at a wedding house started yesterday before Justice Winston Patterson,Stitched Jerseys, but the opening proceedings came to an abrupt end when the main witness told the court that he is fed up of lying.On trial for the murder is Lokenauth Dyal,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, of Canal Number Two,Cheap China Jerseys, West Coast Demerara.The indictment accuses Dyal of killing 36-year-old Farzan Khan,Discount NFL Jerseys, on February 2,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, 2008, at Clay Brick Road, Canal Number Two, West Coast Demerara.Yesterday as the matter started the main witness, Odatt Rafeek,Cheap Jerseys From China, under cross examination crumbled in the witness box, as Attorney at law, Vic Puran, started questioning him.Puran, who is sometimes accused of being “too overwhelming” by witnesses, began his cross examination by asking Rafeek if he was comfortable. “Are you comfortable?…Do you want to sit?” asked Puran.The man answered the first question in the affirmative and the second in the negative. The lawyer then brought him back to the day of the incident.Throughout the entire process the witness kept shifting from side to side, appearing to be unsettled.Halfway through the process, Rafeek blurted out to the court that he was finding it difficult to lie. “Meh cyaan do it…..I cyaan lie no more. Ah fed up lying!” he exclaimed. At this point, Puran began intensifying the questions, and Rafeek refused to answer any further questions thrown to him.The lawyer then made an application to the judge to have the cross examination aborted since the witness was not cooperating.Justice Patterson started questioning Rafeek, trying to ascertain what was wrong with him.“Are you hungry? Are you ill or you just don’t want to say anything more..?” asked Justice Patterson.The Judge later ruled that the cross examination be aborted since the witness was not cooperating.Puran then made an application for Rafeek to be sent to Camp Street Prison, because he was a recalcitrant witness. However Justice Patterson did not grant the lawyer that request.The judge told the court that he would be instructing them about the matter.Reports from the police indicate that Khan was standing with his brother,Cheap Jerseys Store, outside a house where a wedding reception was in progress, at the time of the incident.He and Dyal allegedly had an altercation, during which Dyal reportedly pulled out a knife and dealt him several stabs to the body.The badly wounded man was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. |
