‘Picture Boy’ facing the music for role in fatal robbery -prosecutor

Cyon Collier

“If yuh go a crab dance, yuh gon get mud,” Pro-secutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin told the jury in the Cyon Collier murder trial yesterday, saying that the accused is facing the consequences for the role he played in the robbery which resulted in the death of Chandrapaul Persaud.

As the trial continued before Justice Winston Patterson, Gildharie-Mursalin noted that Collier, known as ‘Picture Boy,’ admitted that he was in another man’s house, where police say they found him with weapons, including an AK-47 stolen from the army. She said the suggestions by Collier’s lawyer Lyndon Amsterdam that the weapons belonged to wanted man Anthony Charles, called ‘Kussum,’ who was later gunned down by police, or the owner of the house, were a ‘blame game’ defence that is as old as creation.

Gildharie-Mursalin further noted that Amsterdam also said that all the prosecution had brought forward was