Double murder trial gets underway

A day after the Demerara January Assizes opened, a man is on trial in the High Court for allegedly killing two teenagers at Enterprise Squatting area four years ago.

Nankumar Singh called `Chow Pakar’ is before Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards for the murders of Fiona Persaud, age 14 years, and Surujpaul Stanley, age 18 years, at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara.

The prosecution is contending that Singh went to the area on August 23, 2003 and shot Persaud and Stanley before fleeing the scene. He was later apprehended by police.

The trial is continuing.