Duo accused of Murder of taxi driver dismissed

Jul 27, 2013 News

-DPP asks for case to be reopened, still failed “miserably” in producing evidence
Yesterday, two men who were charged with the murder of a taxi driver were freed by the magistrate at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s court.
The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) reopened the case for the second time and still failed to produce any evidence to support the charge.
Between May 2 and May 3, 2009, Ian Daniels, 24, and Claudwin Mc Donald, 25, allegedly murdered Rawle Bernard Henry, at Onion Field, La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.
According to newspaper reports, on the said date, the deceased was found in a heap of wild plants with his head partly severed at Onion Field, La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.
Investigators at the time said, that the duo told them that they hired Henry to carry out a robbery, and that he was particularly chosen because one of the suspects had an old score to settle with him.
The detectives believed that the two defendants had a makeshift weapon and held Henry at gunpoint and ordered him out of the car, after which they stabbed him in his ribs with an ice pick. According to police reports, Henry was then tortured as he had several burn marks on his chest and penis and subsequently killed.
The matter was first brought before Magistrate Alex Moore in December, 2010 and the trial began in March 2012 which had the court’s attention for some time.
The matter was later discharged on December 18, 2012 due to insufficient evidence being produced by the prosecution.
The DPP then ordered that the matter be reopened.
Attorney at Law, George Thomas, who represented the defendants, objected to the admissibility of caution statements allegedly made by the duo to the police.
Magistrate Moore made note of the lawyer’s submissions, that after seven months the DPP who reopened the case was still unable to provide evidence and that the caution statements of the two were not admitted into evidence.
Thomas said that the prosecution failed miserably to prove its case in view of there being no evidence to support the charge of murder.
Once again, the court discharged the duo.

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