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Jarrell Duke
He sat in the prisoners’ dock with his head bowed for about 10 minutes awaiting the arrival of the jury yesterday at the High Court in Georgetown.
Jarrell Duke, 21, soon after breathed a sigh of relief after the jury informed him that they had found him unanimously not guilty of raping a six-year-old boy.
At the announcement of the verdict, trial Judge Brassington Reynolds, urged Duke to take the opportunity to go on in life in a way that would bring honour and glory to whatever God he serves.
“This is the closest you would want to come to a life sentence.” The Judge told him that only the “good Lord” knows what transpired between December 14 and December 18, 2013, when the young boy was alleged to have been raped.
Based on the facts, Justice Reynolds told Duke, “Some strange things happened that night at your home. It is my recommendation to the parents involved that the children get professional intervention.”
Duke was represented by Attorney-at-Law Ravindra Mohabir, while the case for the State was presented by Prosecutors Lisa Cave, Seeta Bishundial and Sarah Martin.
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