The trial into the murder of self-confessed death squad informant George Bacchus started early last year, and was somewhat unpredictable, having taken several unexpected twists of events.Delon ‘Fatboy’ ReynoldsThe first surprise came on November 12 last, when the trial was aborted and the accused, Delon ‘Fatboy’ Reynolds, was informed that there would have to be a retrial.Justice Claudette La Bennett, who was presiding over the case, announced that the trial would be aborted but did not specify to the jurors the reason for the decision.However, this newspaper learnt that one of the jurors was related to a witness who happened to be one of the investigating officers in the case.But even before this, when the case began, defence counsel Peter Hugh had challenged the admissibility of a caution statement allegedly given to the police by Reynolds. According to the prosecution, Reynolds had signed a confession statement.A voir dire (trial within a trial) was conducted right up to the decision to abort.Reynolds was previously before the High Court for the very murder, but that trial had also been discontinued.Just over a week after this, the case resumed with another voir dire being held. That one concluded on November 27, with Justice La Bennett admitting the caution statement as evidence.And for the second time, the trial began before a 12-member jury in the Supreme Court, as the state called Detective Sergeant Cedric Gravesande, an investigating officer in the case, as its first witness.Gravesande, currently heading the Criminal Investigations Department at the Kitty Police Station, testified that on June 24, 2004 he was at the time stationed at the La Penitence Police Station,NFL Jerseys Cheap Authentic, which received a report of murder.According to him, he and a party of policemen went to Lot 76 Princes Street, Lodge,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, and upon entering the building found an identifiable male East Indian lying in a bed, whose name he later learnt to be George Bacchus.He added that a red substance, which appeared to be blood, was on the mattress and the man appeared to be dead.Gravesande said he searched the body and found three wounds — one to the left side face, one to the right thigh, and another to the inner aspect of his right arm — which appeared to be made from gunshots.According to Gravesande, the scene was photographed and checked by fingerprint experts in his presence. He questioned several persons, and subsequently escorted the body to the Lyken Funeral Parlour.He also said that the flowing day a post mortem examination was performed on George Bacchus’s body, in his presence, at the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary, by Dr. Nehaul Singh; after which the doctor gave the cause of death.That post mortem report was tendered as evidence without objections by defence counsel Peter Hugh.Several other witnesses followed.Of significance was December 4, when Police Constable Michael Phillips testified to being present when the accused took the police to a weapon which he said he used to kill Bacchus.According to Phillips, on June 30, 2004, he and a party of policemen headed by Superintendent Caesar, along with Reynolds, went to Lot 76 Princes Street, Lodge, (the address where Bacchus’s body was found).He added that Reynolds then took the police ranks to the back of the house, to a box where he said, “This is where I hide de gun that I use to shoot George Bacchus.”hillips said that he received permission from his superior to search the box and subsequently found a nutshell under which he saw what appeared to be a revolver.The weapon, the three spent shells and the live round were tendered as evidence in court.Retired Detective Charles Alleyne,NFL Jerseys China Online, who witnessed the caution statement, took the stand yesterday and read the contents of the statement in which Reynolds said that he climbed in a window to Bacchus’s room and shot him three times.In the statement, Reynolds said that funeral parlour co-owner Debra Douglas offered him $200,000 to kill Bacchus, and he accepted. Douglas was the reputed wife of the man accused of murdering Shafeek Bacchus, who was killed a few months before George Bacchus.The caution statement also said that Reynolds was given a gun on June 23, which he hid at a Chinese restaurant in Garnett Street and retrieved the following night to do the shooting. Reynolds also called Bacchus names, such as jumbie and others.He was Bacchus’s handyman, and lived in a shack in the yard.The next twist came the following day when Reynolds suddenly decided to change his plea to guilty to a lesser count of manslaughter. On December 12, Reynolds was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for the killing of George Bacchus.Reynolds, 23, had thrown himself at the mercy of the court.Before the sentencing, the prosecut