There was a caustic exchange between Attorney Nigel Hughes, who is representing Orvin Kevin Roberts and Leonard Rachpaul, son of the Robb Street drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul, Roberts is accused of murdering when the trial commenced yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court.
The charge against Roberts is that between August 18 and 19, 2011, he murdered the 84-year-old drugstore owner in the course or furtherance of a burglary. The accused has denied the charge.
Testifying at yesterday’s hearing, Leonard recalled that he and his son Vincent had discovered his father’s lifeless body, on August 19, wrapped in a sheet like a mummy and tied off with cords from his clothes iron. He said the safe in the shop which they had locked the
