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Second accused walks free as Magistrate upholds no case submission

Jul 17, 2010 News

Twenty year-old Paul James, of 43 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, yesterday walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court a free men after a no case submission was upheld in his murder trial.
James was said to be involved in the robbery and murder of Clifford Peters, the chief security officer of Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL).
He was accused of killing Peters on May 4, 2009. It was also alleged that James was a member of the gang of men who murdered Peters who was on an operation to remove illegal electricity connections in the Lamaha Park squatting area.
Yesterday, at the closing of submission for the preliminary inquiry Magistrate Sueanna Lovell upheld a no case submission.
The Magistrate in her ruling said that there was not sufficient evidence for James to stand trial in the High Court. However, immediately after leaving the court, James was whisked away to the Brickdam Police Station but was subsequently released following inquiries by his defense counsel, Adrian Thompson.
Peters, of Essequibo Street, Lamaha Springs (Joint Services Housing Scheme), died shortly after one of two armed men shot him in the neck, chest and about his body. He was rushed to the Davis Memorial Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police in a press statement had said they were investigating the murder, which occurred while Peters and other GPL personnel were engaged in the removal of illegal electricity connections.
Two men had reportedly approached linesman Allan Savory.
An argument developed and Savory called out to Peters who intervened and was shot multiple times by one of the men.
The men, according to the police, escaped with Peters’s license revolver.

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