The Tribune

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

FREEPORT – Murder accused Williams Forbes told a Supreme Court jury that he did not kill his girlfriend and that her death was an accident. Forbes, 37, took the witness stand on Wednesday, telling jurors that Natasha Mondelus had a knife in her hand and accidentally cut her throat during a struggle in her apartment in Hanna Hill, Eight Mile Rock.

“I was trying to get the knife out her hand,” he said. “I had no intention of harming her.”

It is alleged that on January 9, 2012, the couple was arguing when Forbes murdered Mondelus. She had a wound about five to six inches in length and two inches wide.  

Forbes said he still loved his girlfriend and that he missed her and was sorry about what had happened. 

He told the court that he and Mondelus met in 2007 on their release from prison. But the relationship became rocky after Natasha’s friends started telling her that he was seeing other women. 

Forbes, who lived in Freeport, said he went to the apartment to talk to her. He said Mondelus started arguing with him. She picked up a knife and came toward him. He grabbed her hand and tried to get the knife, and a struggle followed in which cut her throat with the knife. He said he left the apartment. He admitted he did not call an ambulance or police.

Under questioning, Forbes denied he dragged Natasha into the apartment and choked her, but admitted biting her on her hand so she would release the knife. The case continues.