Two young men who were convicted of the September 2000 murder of a nine-year-old boy and later sentenced to imprisonment at the President’s pleasure were on Monday freed by the Court of Appeal.
The decision was handed down by Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, along with Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justice Rishi Persaud, in favour of Arvin Shivnarine and Dameshwar Narine, who were spared the death penalty because of their age when the case concluded before Justice Winston Moore in the Suddie High Court in December 2005.
It was alleged that the duo murdered Tiab Gafoor at New Road, Charity, Essequibo Coast on September 11, 2000. During the incident, Gafoor’s six-year-old brother Fawaaz was brutally stabbed and spent some time recovering in