Plastic City murder accused says victim was threatening wife

Michael Powley, on trial for the murder of Vishwanauth Narine called, “Buddy,” at Plastic City in 2012, yesterday declared his innocence and said he was trying to protect his wife from the now dead man on the day of their fatal encounter.

Powley made the disclosure after he opted to give an unsworn statement from the prisoner’s dock at the High Court yesterday.

He had been earlier called on to lead a defence to the charge that he murdered Narine, after Justice James Bovell-Drakes overruled no-case submissions made by