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Murder accused freed after three years in prison

Mar 04, 2009 News

Orette West, 21, of Tucville, East La Penitence, was yesterday freed of a murder charge after nearly three years in prison. Freeing the man was Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.
West was arrested and charged on July 9, 2006, at the Kitty Sea Wall, for the murder of Lance Corporal of the Guyana Defence Force, Compton Anthony Haynes at the Kitty Sea Wall.
Lance Corporal Haynes, formerly of 10 Gordon Street, Kitty, who was 22 at the time of his death, the eldest child of his family, was allegedly stabbed in his stomach with a broken bottle.
He died in the early hours of that fateful day.
Corporal Haynes along with several other colleagues of his was at the sea wall when the defendant who was an auto body mechanic became involved in an argument over some woman.
The uncle of the deceased had noted that it appeared that his nephew, being a calm person and about to start his life, was the peacemaker and tried to part the fight that ensued between the defendant and one of his colleagues.
Unfortunately, he was the one that was forced to draw his last breath.
When Kaieteur News spoke with the mother of the now free man, she said that her son, on the day in question, was in an argument with the deceased over some car, not a girl.
She added that after they started to fight, her son tried to get away, but was caught and beaten by one of the colleagues of the now dead Haynes.
“When he attempted to get away with his car, they dragged he and beat he up more; that was how this started.”
Attorney Basil Williams, who was the defendant’s lawyer, said that his client was simply defending himself from a multitude of 13 soldiers, but at a costly price, spending nearly three years in prison.
“It was just unfortunate that he had to wait so long.”
The Magistrate used the opportunity to tell the defendant that if he is guilty of what they said he did then God will be his witness.

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