‘Kneel down let me kill you’
By AZARD ALI Thursday, November 8 2012
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JURY in San Fernando yesterday heard how a husband chopped his wife
twice, then, holding a cutlass, asked her to kneel before him, so he
could kill her.
Meena Rampersad, 54, testified
in the San Fernando High Court that she lived with Basil De Leon, 59,
for ten years and nine months, but left the matrimonial home in 2006.
They had two children, but on November 19, 2007, husband De Leon turned
up at her gate armed with a cutlass.
De Leon, of Tabaquite, is before Justice Malcolm Holdip, charged with attempted murder of ex-wife Rampersad.
Yesterday, the woman told a jury of nine men and women, how she had packed her clothes and went to live at Pierre Phillip Trace, New Grant. She was sitting outside her apartment on November 19, she recalled, when at about 10 am, ex-husband De Leon turned up. He had a cutlass upraised in his hand, she said.
Rampersad testified that De Leon said, “You took everything from the house, and gone to live with a next man. Ah come to kill you, and yuh man. Yuh think I stupid....ah come to kill both of you.”
Rampersad told the judge and jury that De Leon raised the cutlass and fired a chop. “I brakes with my left hand and my finger got chopped. I then turned around to go inside.
“I saw him coming right behind me. He said he would have to kill me. He keep asking ‘where the man... tell the man to come out.”’
In answer to questions from Senior State Attorney, Angelica Teelucksingh, Rampersad testified that ex-husband De Leon came down with the cutlass again. She said she blocked the chop with her left hand, and was cut on the wrist. The woman said she bawled out and noticed that she was bleeding. She said, “I see blood everywhere. I said ‘Oh boy, what you doing?” Rampersad said she called out to her neighbour, whose name she gave as, De Angelo.
Rampersad then told the jury of five women and four men, that she hid behind a car parked in the driveway, but De Leon challenged her again. When she dodged him, he beckoned her to come out into the open, kneel down, so that he could kill her. Rampersad testified: “My hand was burning. He said ‘Meena come and kneel down here leh meh kill yuh.’ He kept saying that. He had the cutlass in his hand.”
The woman said she ran inside the house and locked the door.
Attorney Rekha Ramjit, who is defending De Leon, cross-examined Rampersad yesterday, who said that an ambulance took her to hospital where she was warded for two days. The trial continues tomorrow.
De Leon, of Tabaquite, is before Justice Malcolm Holdip, charged with attempted murder of ex-wife Rampersad.
Yesterday, the woman told a jury of nine men and women, how she had packed her clothes and went to live at Pierre Phillip Trace, New Grant. She was sitting outside her apartment on November 19, she recalled, when at about 10 am, ex-husband De Leon turned up. He had a cutlass upraised in his hand, she said.
Rampersad testified that De Leon said, “You took everything from the house, and gone to live with a next man. Ah come to kill you, and yuh man. Yuh think I stupid....ah come to kill both of you.”
Rampersad told the judge and jury that De Leon raised the cutlass and fired a chop. “I brakes with my left hand and my finger got chopped. I then turned around to go inside.
“I saw him coming right behind me. He said he would have to kill me. He keep asking ‘where the man... tell the man to come out.”’
In answer to questions from Senior State Attorney, Angelica Teelucksingh, Rampersad testified that ex-husband De Leon came down with the cutlass again. She said she blocked the chop with her left hand, and was cut on the wrist. The woman said she bawled out and noticed that she was bleeding. She said, “I see blood everywhere. I said ‘Oh boy, what you doing?” Rampersad said she called out to her neighbour, whose name she gave as, De Angelo.
Rampersad then told the jury of five women and four men, that she hid behind a car parked in the driveway, but De Leon challenged her again. When she dodged him, he beckoned her to come out into the open, kneel down, so that he could kill her. Rampersad testified: “My hand was burning. He said ‘Meena come and kneel down here leh meh kill yuh.’ He kept saying that. He had the cutlass in his hand.”
The woman said she ran inside the house and locked the door.
Attorney Rekha Ramjit, who is defending De Leon, cross-examined Rampersad yesterday, who said that an ambulance took her to hospital where she was warded for two days. The trial continues tomorrow.
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