A high number of accused persons have walked free after High Court trials since the start of the year, for which the poor quality of police investigations, inexperienced prosecutors and a vulnerable jury system are being blamed.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack, questioned about the situation, acknowledged that in some of the cases where the persons were found not guilty by the jury, the reason was “the quality of” the investigations. In addition, Ali-Hack in a short correspondence to Stabroek News,