– Ballistics expert By Latoya GilesBallistics Expert Sergeant Eon Jackson said yesterday that the bullet which was removed from the body of Chandrapaul Persaud called ‘Kero man’ during the post mortem examination and handed over to him was discharged from the AK-47 assault rifle which was found with murder accused, Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’.Jackson was called by the Prosecution to testify before Justice Winston Patterson and a mixed jury when the murder trial continued.Collier is on trial for the murder of Persaud at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, on September 30, 2006.When Jackson took to the witness stand, he testified about his qualifications, including Firearms and Ammunition training/examination courses in which he had participated,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, both in Barbados and the United States of America, where he was successful and had received certification.By 2006, he had been attached to the Ballistics Section at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary, for some 11 years and had examined an average of 900-1000 weapons as well as some 10,000 rounds of ammunition.The witness said he had given evidence in the Magistrates’ and High Courts of Guyana more than 250 times.State Prosecutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin made an application to the Trial Judge for Jackson to be deemed an expert in Firearms and Ammunition (Ballistics).However, this application was objected to by Defence Counsel, Lyndon Amsterdam, who is appearing in association with Keisha Chase and Yollanda Lamott.Amsterdam submitted that deeming the witness an expert could not be based just on mere numbers but on the quality of his examinations and whether any supervision of his work was done.Murder accused Cyon CollierProsecutor Gildharie-Mursalin relied on the authority of R v. Silverlock (1894) 2 Q.B. 766, submitting that it was enunciated in the said case that to be deemed an expert, one had to be skilled in the branch of knowledge involved, but need not have acquired his skill as a professional.The prosecutor also said in that case, a solicitor who had been an amateur student of handwriting for 10 years was held competent to testify as a handwriting expert since the Court had found that the fact that he was not a professional went towards weight, not to admissibility.The Prosecutor proceeded to ask the judge to consider when determining this preliminary point that Jackson, with his qualifications and on-the-job experience acquired over those eleven years, as well as the numbers of examinations of firearms and ammunition he had done, was suitably qualified to be deemed an expert by the Court.Justice Patterson overruled the objection.In his evidence-in-chief, Jackson testified that on October 3,Cheap Jerseys Online, 2006, he received at the Ballistics Section at CID Headquarters, from Corporal Floyd Hosanna, a marked and sealed envelope containing two 7.62 x 39 fired casings.Hosanna had testified earlier in the trial that he had retrieved the two fired casings from the verandah at the home of Chandrapaul Persaud at Non Pareil on the night of September 30, 2006.Jackson said that on October 3, 2006, he received from Sergeant Chabinauth Singh,jerseys from china, a marked and sealed envelope containing one 7.62 x 39 fired bullets.Singh had earlier testified that he was present during the autopsy of Persaud when Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh had removed a warhead from Persaud’s body and handed it over to him (Singh).Jackson said that on October 5, 2006, he received from ASP Michael Kingston a marked and sealed parcel containing a 7.62 x 39 AK-47 assault rifle with a magazine and a marked and sealed envelope containing 13 7.62 x 39 rounds of ammunition.The witness recounted that he discharged three of the rounds submitted to him from the AK-47 rifle and found the firearm to be in working order.He then compared the three fired casings to the two submitted to him by Hosanna and found that all five casings bore the same firing pin impressions and striation marks in identical sequence.Based on his findings, he formed the opinion that the two fired casings submitted to him by Hosanna were discharged in the AK-47 assault rifle submitted by Kingston.Jackson said he then compared the fired bullet submitted to him by Singh to the three bullets he had discharged using the said AK 47 Rifle and he found that all four bullets had the same striation marks in identical sequence.He expressed his opinion that the fired bullet submitted by Singh was discharged from the said rifle.Jackson explained that striation marks on a bullet are the marks left when it passes through the barrel of the firearm. He said it is the signature of the firearm and would be unique to the particular firearm and cannot be reproduced in another fir