Trial begins of accused in elderly St Lawrence farmer’s murder

Rudolph Moonsammy

Patrick Anthony Balgobin yesterday pleaded not guilty to murdering Rudolph Moonsammy when his trial began before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the High Court, in Georgetown.

The particulars of the indictment against Balgobin state that between June 7th and June 10th, 2010 in the country of Demerara, he murdered Moonsammy, called ‘Ralph.’

In her opening address, Prosecutor Tuanna Hardy said that on June 7th,