Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
“Two Colours” freed of 2014 murder of Lusignan cosmetologist
…after three trials, eight years behind bars
Dead, Ashmini Harriram
Lennox Wayne called “Two Colours”
Kaieteur News – After spending eight years behind bars and going through three trials for the murder of Lusignan cosmetologist, Ashmini Harriram, Lennox Wayne called “Two Colours” was freed on Tuesday of the offence.
This month, a 12-member jury was empanelled in the Demerara High Court before Justice Jo Ann Barlow to hear the matter.
At Wayne’s third retrial, he once again denied that he murdered Harriram on July 10, 2014. The matter then went to trial and on Tuesday, the jury returned with a unanimously not guilty verdict. As such, Justice Barlow freed Wayne of the 2014 crime.
Notably, Wayne’s previous trials for the murder both ended in hung juries.
Wayne was charged with Melroy Doris for the murder of the young woman. In March 2021, when Doris appeared before Justice Brassington Reynolds, he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter. He was then sentenced in April 2021, to five years’ imprisonment for the crime after the Court considered the time he already spent in pre-trial custody, among other factors
According to reports, the 19-year-old cosmetologist of Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, was shot and killed on July 10, 2014. Harriram was shot in the neck moments after she disembarked a minibus along the Lusignan Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.
The shooter purportedly emerged from a burgundy motorcar, PRR 8370, which was parked along the said road. It was reported that Doris was the shooter.
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