Killers get $100 for hijacked car
One hundred dollars was paid for a Nissan B13 Sentra car when it was sold to an underworld character called "Corksey" by the men who had hijacked the car and killed the driver, a jury heard yesterday. The men took the money and used it to get back to their homes at Union Village, Mayaro. This evidence came out yesterday during the murder trial of Ramzan Bachan, 24, of Gopie Hill Trace, Union Village, Mayaro. Bachan is before Justice Devan Rampersad in the Port-of-Spain Third Criminal Court charged with the murder of Elwyn Sampson, 45. Sampson, a taxi driver of Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas, had his throat slit by Bachan on the morning of November 21, 2001, on the Uriah Butler Highway. Aaron Ramnath, 26, of Union Village, was one of three men who were privy to a plan to steal a car and sell it. The others are his brother Joshua, who was 16 year old at the time, accused Bachan and Daniel Goolcharan. A few days before the November 21 killing, the men went to El Socorro and stayed at the home of Ramnath's father. They were in possession of KIA Sephia vehicle which they had hoped would be sold by a man in El Socorro, but the man was unable to sell the car. Goolcharan wanted money, so he suggested that they get another car that would sell. Ramnath, who spent most of yesterday in the witness box, said he understood Goolcharan's suggestion to mean that they needed to steal a car. On the night of November 20, 2001, the men decided to get another car, but Ramnath said he declined the invitation. "I did not really want to get involved in something else." Bachan, Goolcharan and Joshua left, and returned early the next morning. Bachan's elbow was wrapped in a jersey, and it was bleeding. Bachan told Ramnath that he was involved "in a scramble" and he "bust the man throat." Ramnath said he stopped the bleeding. Later, he was shown a white B 13 Sentra parked at Mary Lane. The car was later moved to Sesame Street, where a man named Corksey wanted to buy the car. He changed the number plate, the court heard. Ramnath said he later visited Corksey to see if he had the money for the boys — Goolcharan, Bachan and Joshua. In response to questions from prosecutor Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo, assisted by Shoba Jamunath, Ramnath said, "we did not get the money for the car. We don't know if he sold the car. Corksey give me $100. I told Bachan and Daniel that we should go back to Union Village. We used the $100 to pay our passage home." When hearing resumed on Monday, defence attorney Larry Williams, assisted by Cells Jules, will cross-examine Ramnath.
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