Man charged with attempting to murder UK couple, freed

Clint Alexis

(Trinidad Express) The man charged with two counts of attempting to murder a British couple with a cutlass while they slept at their idyllic Tobago home was on Monday freed of the charges.

The crime made international headlines and had threatened to destabilise the tourism industry in the sister isle.
Senior Magistrate Annette McKenzie, presiding in the Scarborough Magistrates’ Court, ruled that the case against Clint Alexis, the man accused of attempting to murder the tourists, be dismissed for want of prosecution.

And the victims, Peter and Murium Green, have