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Schoolboy freed of manslaughter charge

Aug 13, 2009 News

In May 2006, a 12-year-old schoolboy was charged and subsequently remanded to prison for the murder of a fellow student.
However three years later the now 15-year-old Ricky Hinds has been freed of the charge.
Hinds was accused of killing 12-year-old Rayaaz Esahack. The charge was subsequently reduced to manslaughter on the direction from the Director of Public Prosecutions.
On May 17, 2006, Hinds and Esahack were involved in a confrontation that led to name-calling. The angry Hinds picked up a piece of wood and clubbed Esahack to his head. The injured child, who at the time attended the La Grange Comprehensive College, was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital by a schoolteacher and was treated for a wound to the head and sent away.
The lad’s relatives were made aware of the incident after an older sibling who at the time operated a stall at the hospital, noticed his younger brother at the hospital.
After being sent home with stitches for his wounds, Esahack was rushed to a private hospital later the night after complaining of severe pains. He was placed on life support and died two days later.
Now more than three years later the preliminary inquiry into the charge of manslaughter has been completed.
Defence counsel Basil Williams made a no-case submission that the state failed to prove that a prima facie case had been made.
The submission was upheld by Magistrate Octive-Hamilton.

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