Lamaha Springs murder accused says he was chopped with cutlass

Carl Garnette

In a caution statement (CS) he gave to police, murder accused Aniki Jones said that it was Carl Garnette who attacked and chopped him in the head with a cutlass, resulting in a fight thereafter ensuing between them.

Jones is currently on trial for Garnette’s murder, before Justice Nareshwar Harnanan and a 12-member mixed jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

The charge against him, is that on December 15, 2013 at Lot 8 Clifford Street, Lamaha Springs, Joint Services Housing Scheme, Georgetown, he murdered Garnette.

He has pleaded not guilty to the capital indictment.

The caution statement which was tendered and admitted into evidence,