Son recalls hearing row, sounds of scuffle between Plantain Walk murder accused, deceased

The son of Nichola Joseph, who is accused of killing her common-law husband, yesterday testified that on the day of the alleged crime he heard what sounded like a scuffle between the arguing couple and later saw the deceased bleeding from the chest.

Taking the stand yesterday at the High Court in Georgetown, where Joseph is on trial for the murder of Curtis McKinnon on July 20, 2014, at Lot 12 Plantain Walk, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara, was 19-year-old Joshua Peroune.

Peroune told Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury that he heard his mother and the deceased