After chasing a man through hospital, a gunman waited until he was close enough to do the greatest damage before pulling the trigger, it was alleged in Grand Court Wednesday.
Making her closing address to the jury in the trial in which Carlos Russell is accused of murdering Philip Watler, Solicitor General Cheryll Richards claimed it had been a deliberate execution.
She said Russell had a powerful and overwhelming motive to kill after his Pease Bay home was allegedly sprayed with bullets by Mr. Watler and another man the night before.
She said Russell’s reference in his evidence to a mysterious person firing two shots during the incident at the George Town Hospital was not true.
In his evidence Russell claimed that he fired two shots but then heard the sound of two other shots being fired.
Ms Richards said that story was ‘absolutely incredible.’
She said the issue of self defence had been put forward but Mr. Watler had been running for his life and there was no evidence that he stopped and challenged the defendant.
She suggested that Russell waited until he was close enough to do the greatest damage and that it was a deliberate execution.
The prosecution suggested that Russell was determined to seek revenge and was on a course of revenge at the time.
Mr. Howard Hamilton QC, defending, told the jury that his case was one of self defense.
Russell – who told the jury that Mr. Watler had turned and dipped his hand into his waist – believed his life was in danger, said Mr. Hamilton.
The man Russell was faced with had showed a murderous intention in shooting up the house the night before, he said.
The ballistic evidence in the case was in a shambles, Mr. Hamilton also told the jury.
The case continued Thursday.
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