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Convicted Murderer of Russian Teenager Appeals His Sentence in Barbados, May 5, 2015

Submitted by Amy L.Beam On May 5, the Court of Appeals of Barbados (in the new High Court building) will hear the appeal of Teerath Persaud for the length of his sentence for manslaughter of Anna Druzhinina.  It took family friend, Amy Beam, two years (and a new Registrar of the Court) to obtain the…

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Anna Druzhinina
Anna Druzhinina

On May 5, the Court of Appeals of Barbados (in the new High Court building) will hear the appeal of Teerath Persaud for the length of his sentence for manslaughter of Anna Druzhinina.  It took family friend, Amy Beam, two years (and a new Registrar of the Court) to obtain the transcripts from the trials of the two murderers (McCollin and Persaud) of Anna Druzhinina, a popular and loved 16-year-old Russian girl who lived in Barbados and was hanged in her home November 8, 2008.

Appeals are heard by 3 judges, including the Chief Justice.  Court opens at 9AM and is open to the public.  Beam wrote about the murder of her friend, Anna Druzhinina, in 2013, after the manslaughter trial of Teerath Persaud was completed and he was sentenced to 21 years of which he has now served six-and-a-half years.

Counting one year as actually only 9 months for “good behavior,” Persaud could be eligible for release in under 10 years. BFP published the story written by Dr. Amy L. Beam in 3 parts in 2013: Barbados murder of Russian teen Anna Druzhinina: Censorship and Travesty of Justice. The Barbados Nation News also published the story – the cache is still available and the URL Death Load.

Related Link: Twenty three years for killing

68 responses to “Convicted Murderer of Russian Teenager Appeals His Sentence in Barbados, May 5, 2015”

  1. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    Sorry.

    That should read “where we (self professed) biblical behemoths might discourse there on things that none of us know about”

    In stating that “know nothing about” I am mindful of Socrates’ Apology which I have partially truncated in support of that “know nothing about” perspective”…., gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know…. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.’

    So let us engage anew ELSEWHERE CAUSE DE OLE MAN DUN.

    @ Dr. Love

    Where is the copy of the transcripts??

  2. David Weekes Avatar
    David Weekes

    My daughter went to school with Anna.

    She told me about this court matter and since I have a similar matter in court I just came here to read this.

    It is unkind to do this

    Anna was a nice girl.

    Kind and gentle and if you had known her you could not be doing something like this to a parent who has lost a child.

    I might be fighting a court case and commenting on my failure to get a day in court but this is low.

    A few days before Anna died my daughter remarked how pensive she had been and you use a place where a person in pain comes to get some recourse from a court system that has failed them, as it has failed me, for eight years, to play a word game with posters?

    This is why our country is where we are

    Do you have children?

    No parent could do this to another parent

  3. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    David Weekes May 6, 2015 at 6:26 AM #

    “Thine Ingrunce Knows No Bounds.”

    Perhaps you have not noticed, if this matter had happened in the United States of America, it would have been taken more seriously.

    A child has been murdered in Barbados and we have contributors arguing about the Bible. Yet these same individuals have remained focused enough to post over 700 comments on Freddy Gray and riots in Baltimore, USA.

    No wonder the Trinidadians have forced hundreds of Barbadians into the preference of purchasing STAG beer at CBC (which is owned by Barbadian tax payers) “Q in the Community”, while local beers, Banks and Deputy, have to be sold off the premises where this event is being held.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Freedom of expression is a funny thing. We have it yet some abuse it however the reality is that although we don’t like what other may say at times they have the right to express it good tast or not.

  5. ac Avatar
    ac

    The question brought to table indicates that the Freddy article generated six hundred comments and attenion and has nothing to do with the affairs of barbados…however the similarties arenot the same .this case went through a judicial process and a sentence was handed dowm to the guilty party whether one agrees or not is disputable.unlike the frddy issue and other similar circumstances. where justice was inappropriately handed down seeing the accusers walk free without as much as spending a day in jail…one must not let their political biases cloud their vision of the totality and impact cases like Freddy have to a democracy which “supposedly”is govern by the rule of law and which has the possibilty if left unfettered w to be govern by the rule of lawlessness and which gives reasonable cause for outrage and attention

  6. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    D Ingrunt Word May 6, 2015 at 1:20 AM #
    RE Not trying to be biased
    YOU ARE BIASED –VERY BIASED
    RE Doctor. I can only proceed by aiming to discern what is before me. AIMING TO DISCERN IS CORRECT BUT NOT DISCERNING
    RE You initiated the broad-sides with your brick-bats to Pieces. Disagreement is fair. Emotive, invective laden disagreement on the biblical word is the height of bad form (hypocrisy). ON BU THAT IS CALLED CHALLENGING. I MAKE NO APOLOGY FOR WHAT I SAID
    RE Context as you mentioned is everything.YOU GOT THAT RIGHT An in-depth scripture essay or discussion with a church group or similar may require scholarship validation.
    A blog clarification with the remark “…AND WANTS TO DEBATE BIBLE WITH AN ACCOMPLISHED BIBLE SCHOLAR” is not the tone of a shepherd guiding the less informed.
    NO IT IS THE TRUTH! THE ONLY SHEPHERD ON BU IS BUSHTEA
    RE It is that of man for whom the posture and posing is more important than clarification of the Word itself. THAT IS YOUR OPINION
    The brilliant doctors with profound scholarship but who have a perverse manner with people are either researchers who find great cures or great professors to the next generators of docs (or heavily insured, cantankerous louts)..,similarly, if you are focused on your biblical scholarship and can cite so boldly, ‘IF HE CAN FALSELY CALL ALL BAJANS “brass bowls” WHY CANT I TRUTHFULLY CALL HIM A “biblical illiterate”…” then you have a perverse manner with getting the word to the flock.
    BU IS NOT ANY FLOCK AND BUSHTEA IS NOT ONLY A BIBLICAL ILLITERAT BUT A SEED PICKER
    REThus you should validate your scholarship and write weighty tomes; as clearly you are experiencing great difficulty in actually practicing the tenets of the Lord about whom you ‘proselytize’ so much here.
    I AM HAVING FUN IN THE RUM SHOP AND YOU CAN WRITE YOUR LENTHY TOMES TO TRY TO BASH ME BUT I WILL DO WHAT I WANT OK?
    I HAVE THE RIGHT TO POST LIKE EVERY BODY ELSE AND TO EXPRESS MYSELF LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND I WILL
    RE I understand that have completed a fulfilling life and that this is ‘bare mock sport’ but what I really don’t understand is why a biblical person would basically be so anti-christian in manner as he expounds about God.
    I DID IT SO THAT NOW YOU CAN BE ADDED AS A WHIPPING BOY TO ME LOL LOL MURDAH
    RE That sir speaks to a strange mock sport at the Lord. I believe you scholars might call it sacrilegious.NO MOCK SPORT AT THOSE WHO CONTRADICT MY ACURATE AND RIGHT DIVISION OF THE WORD OF TRUTH
    But ingrunt me! EXACTLY!

  7. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    pieceuhderockyeahright May 6, 2015 at 3:06 AM #
    Sorry.

    That should read “where we (self professed) biblical behemoths might discourse there on things that none of us know about”

    NOT SELF PROFESSED SIR
    STUDIED DILLIGENTLY (BY ROTE LOL)

    RE Ino other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know….

    I AINT WISE I AM NOT INTELLIGENT (according to bush tea)
    the medicine i share on bu can be obtained from wikepedia
    but i DEFINITELY KNOW WHAT I KNOW I DONT THINK I KNOW IT
    I KNOW I KNOW IT

    RE And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.’
    I DONT BELIEVE I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW

    RE So let us engage anew ELSEWHERE CAUSE DE OLE MAN DUN.

    GOOD IDEA BECAUSE YOU MISQUOTED JOHN 14:6 YESTERDAY AND YOU COULD NOT RESPOND TO MY CHALLENGE

    ALL I DID WAS CHALLENGE
    ALL I DID WAS THE BU THING — I CHALLENGED
    I OFFERED AND DEFENDED MY VIEW ah lie?

    bare mock sport in the rum shop just like tanty merle in the oval ROTFLMAO

  8. De Ingrunt Word Avatar
    De Ingrunt Word

    David W, in what sense has this particular blog and the previous ones archived here, abused the ‘kind and gentle’ spirit of the child you knew and for whom you grieve?

    How has anyone here been “doing something like this to a parent who has lost a child”?

    Anna’s father from what I gleaned from the previous posts was very instrumental in posting and highlighting this very painful matter and he himself did admit – as obviously it would be – that to rehash the affair was very hard on him but he also suggested that to do otherwise would be a travesty to the death of his beautiful daughter.

    I hear you pain and concern but how else can we seek redress and properly balm that deep wound unless we pull back the dressing and administer to it afresh.

    And oh, every thread has unrelated cross-talk, we are mature enough to dismiss and focus on the point at hand. Which thread has not been filled with unmannerly, disgusting, uncouth commentary?

    Back in the days when I debated at school it was considered an art form to ‘dis’ your opponent in the most respectful way possible by showing the fallacy of argument. A good debater never cussed his opponent straight-up. Never.

    Here on the blog, manly (womanly) power is to show who can use the best condescending and nastiest rhetoric. It is offensive.

    This BU group is like a small village community and when you see the behaviour of someone deemed a wise village elder in a matter of this type it does show the irony and hypocrisy of bloggers now doesn’t it!

    I read this blog and was absolutely shocked at the depraved indifference shown by the killers and wept quietly for Anna. But unless these matters are highlighted in all their base gory narrative how then can we become aware of the utter depravity and callous collusion that also drives those on the ‘right’ side of our criminal justice system.

  9. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Bushie wrote “This whole episode of that child’s murder and the followup official and legal shenanigans in Barbados is a disgrace….”

    The pain and suffering inflicted on that child before she died should have been enough to send her murderers to prison for life without parole.

    That is my layman’s opinion.

    I will keep my opinion of the Barbados Justice system to myself.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    The case is an example of the ‘mental disorder’ our justice system and country suffers. Where is the damn outrage!

  11. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    David May 6, 2015 at 10:26 AM #
    The case is an example of the ‘mental disorder’ our justice system and country suffers. Where is the damn outrage!

    the ‘mental disorder’ our justice system and country suffers has been going on for a long time………….perhaps that’s the reason for the lack of outrage

    i have suffered personally too but why kick against the pricks?

    i am not intelligent and i learned by rote but I KNOW RANTING AND RAVING AND SHEDDING TEARS ON BU WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ah lie?

  12. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    hants wrote
    The pain and suffering inflicted on that child before she died should have been enough to send her murderers to prison for life without parole.

    The pain and suffering inflicted on THE PEOPLE OF BARBADOS BY FUMBLE AND THE DLP should be enough to send FUMBLE AND THE DLP to prison for life without parole. ah lie?

  13. David Avatar
    David

    We have to do something GP or the same outrage we are witnessing across the US will begin here. We believe it can’t happen here but as sure as John 3:16 it is possible.

    On 6 May 2015 at 14:51, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  14. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    again

    The pain and suffering inflicted on that child before she died should have been enough to sentence her murderers to prison for life without parole…….Then they should be jailed in solitary confinement like Paul Bernardo.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Now we are hearing the Courts of Barbados are being further compromised because there is a shortage of ink and paper.

  16. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Bibliomancy

    “I DID IT SO THAT NOW YOU CAN BE ADDED AS A WHIPPING BOY TO ME LOL LOL MURDAH”
    How Christianity was introduced to Black Amerikkka (Part 2)
    https://www.facebook.com/truthandedutainment/videos/1516587465271647

  17. ac Avatar
    ac

    Ebola a forgotten topic has now reemerged in the news as one Ebola survivor has been diagnosed with a re-occurrence of ebola found in his eye, this indeed is nerve wrecking for survivors and the hundreds of care workers who might have never shown signs of ebola but maybe carriers of this deadly disease lodging somewhere in their anatomy yet to be activated,. this should be of serious concern to the public since the survivor who is a doctor was pronounced as being cured of the disease when first treated and dismissed from the hospital,

  18. David Avatar
    David

    Can we make this up?

    Tragedy hits family again

    by MARIA BRADSHAW mariabradshaw@nationnews.com

    FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER the horrific death of her 16-yearold daughter, Larissa Jackson is seeking answers again, this time about the equally tragic death of her husband, John.

    The owner of So-Lo Trading in Black Rock, St Michael, died on Sunday when the mower he was driving went over a cliff at his sprawling Palmers, St John plantation where he lived.

    To date, there has been no statement from the police regarding the death which is being called a freak accident, but Larissa who resides in the United Kingdom (UK), told the DAILY NATION that John’s housekeeper had contacted her and she was able to view the rescue by the fire department on her webcam.

    Larissa, who is bed-ridden, and John left Barbados a few years after the 2008 death of Larissa’s 16-year-old daughter Anna, who was hanged, bound and gagged, and her body placed on a kerosene oil-soaked bed while the house at Palmers was set on fire. John and Larissa would get home just in time to out the fire but not to save Anna.

    Two men, Teerath Persaud and Omar McCollin, who worked for John and who he had accused of stealing $100 000, pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing Anna and were sentenced to 16 and 18 years in jail, which angered the couple who felt that the sentences were too light. Earlier this year, Persaud was released after serving his sentence.

    John returned to Barbados in February to take back up the operations at So-Lo.

    Larissa, who is Russian, could not travel because she is seriously ill and has medication pumped continuously into her body through tubes. However, she said John returned to the UK in September and only came back to Barbados on October 29.

    “I spoke to him on Sunday morning and I said what are your plans for today and he told me he was going to cut the grass because he was having guests over for lunch, ” she said.

    She described John as a very careful man as she relayed how he had told her previously that the tyre on the lawn mower was “busted” and that he could not drive it on the wet grass.

    “He went to Six Roads, [St Philip] and bought a kit to patch the tyre, but the kit was never used. It’s very strange his action. He knows it is dangerous and he doing it? He is not a stupid man. I said, ‘John, be careful baby, because you got me to look after’. He said, ‘I know that. I will be careful baby’. He knew the danger. He told me the difficult part was when the tyres get burst, you can slip over and injure yourself. .”

    Equally concerning to Larissa was that no police officers had contacted her up to yesterday.

    “I would like to know where was the blood and how he was found. He was communicating fine and when the doctors came he went dead,” she sadly revealed, adding that John had called out to the housekeeper as he laid injured on the ground and the housekeeper, after seeing him over the embankment, ran for help.

    “I am devastated, of course. How can I possibly feel towards everything? He was everything to me,” she cried.

    John’s son Simon, who operated So-Lo when his father was overseas, described him as “a man of deeply-held convictions, an impulse always to action and above all, a love of freedom”.

    He added: “These qualities, and his background from a poor, working-class family in the UK, instilled in him a rigorous work ethic and the conviction that anything he did should be for the benefit of others. He created a multimillion-pound business in the UK from the equivalent of $250 capital before he came to Barbados in the late ’80s, which disrupted the school uniform industry and allowed working class parents to access far more affordable uniform items for their children.

    “His creation of So-Lo Trading in Black Rock was driven by the desire to show that food and general grocery shopping in Barbados could be far more reasonably priced. He was very much a hands-on business owner, and a man of the people . . . .”

    John also had a daughter, Janie, who lives in the UK.

    Family friend Amy Beam, who stood by John and Larissa’s side when their daughter died, yesterday expressed similar sentiments about John.

    “John Jackson spent his whole life helping other people, especially people who had less than others, and he brought affordable food to all the population of Barbados. He endured such injustice . . . that they had moved overseas. He came back to Barbados to run So-Lo for the people of Barbados. He loved Barbados and many people in Barbados loved him, and that’s what supported him because he noticed that not everyone in Barbados was a bad person.”

    Source: Nation

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