Murder accused paid US$700 to have stepfather killed –witness testifies

Motilall Singh

A state witness yesterday testified that one of the women on trial for the murder of US-based Guyanese Motilall Singh had paid him US$700 to murder the man.

The witness, Keith Boodram, called ‘Ravi’ and ‘Tall man,’ told Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury in the High Court that he did not commit the crime but did take the money and invested it.

Boodram recalled that on September 2, 2009, at about 19:00 hrs, he received a phone call from murder accused Bibi Farida Khan, who said that she wanted to see him at La Jalousie. He said that he drove over and when he got there he saw Khan and her sister on the road and she told him that her stepfather was in the country and she