Labourer in court for baby Josiah’s murder

Nash is alleged to have bashed the baby’s head against a wall in the bedroom of the child’s home at Surujbally Trace, Caratal Road, Gasparillo. Josiah, just 14 months old, died while being rushed to the San Fernando General Hospital.

Nash, an out-patient of St Ann’s Hospital, was charged with the baby’s murder yesterday after police investigators sought advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Around 2 pm yesterday, Nash was escorted from the San Fernando CID office to the nearby San Fernando Magistrate’s Court by Homicide detectives.

Clad in a light blue shirt, a navy blue pair of pants and a pair of yellow rubber slippers, Nash was taken before Deputy Chief Magistrate Mark Wellington to answer the charge of murder.

The magistrate read the charge to Nash, then told the accused that he would not be called on to plead. Asked by Wellington if he had an attorney to represent him, Nash looked around the empty courtroom then muttered a few words which were barely audible.

Wellington postponed the matter to July 1.