Harold Rachpaul murder…Fingerprints at scene matched accused – police witness

Police witness Sailesh Roopnarine yesterday testified that prints found at the scene where 84-year-old drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul was murdered matched the fingerprints of the accused Orvin Kevin Roberts.

Roberts is on trial for the murder before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown. The allegation against him is that between August 18 and 19, 2011, he murdered the octogenarian in the course or furtherance of a burglary.

He has denied the