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return to the room with the razor he handed it over to
and it was
then that he saw blood on his aunt's neck. He became frightened as he
knew or believed her to be dead.
then asked for the money back
which he returned and was given in its stead two gold chains. He said he
then left the premises leaving
behind.
It was inherent in his story that
(a)
he never cut anyone's throat;
(b)
he was away getting the razor when
his aunt, and
dealt the fatal blow to
(c)
that when he left the premises the amah was still alive in the next
room and must have been killed by
He did not give evidence and so he could not be asked how he anticipated
getting away with the robbery. It must have been highly convenient for
him that the amah was killed. None of her blood was found on the chopper.
There were numerous bloodstains on the chopper of the same grouping as that
of the aunt. The pathologist said the absence of any of the amah's blood on
the chopper could be explained if the amah had first been killed. Any
traces of her blood on the chopper could reasonably have been washed away
by the blood on the infliction of the injury to the aunt.
15.
that
The chopper was found hidden in the aunt's room. It seemed highly unlikely
had he killed the amah after killing the aunt, would have
returned to the aunt's room merely to hide the chopper. Furthermore it
seemed highly unlikely that the amah, who, according to the pathologist
had at some stage offered resistance to her assailant, would have remained
inert on the bed when her legs were not tied unless of course she had been
killed prior to the aunt.