A man was set free this week after he was found not guilty of murdering a New Amsterdam taxi driver in 2010.
Stephen Campbell of Lot 5 Number Seven, Bramsfield Village, East Coast Berbice, was accused of murdering Trevor Kissoon, 27, of 24 Alexander Street, New Amsterdam. A no-case submission which stated that the evidence presented by the state was unsatisfactory and unsound was upheld by Justice William Ramlal in the High Court at New Amsterdam which resulted in the jury returning with a formal verdict of not guilty.
According to the state’s case, on June 9, 2010 a request for a taxi via telephone was made to the J&N Taxi Service. It was noted that the unknown caller asked for the driver of the 212 to pick him up at the Canje Turn. Kissoon who was the driver was dispatched and upon reaching the Canje Turn radioed in to tell the base that he had made his pick up and was heading to Rose Hall Town. On June 10, 2010 around 07:30 hrs Kissoon’s body was discovered at the point of the drop off with several injuries to his head and about his body.
The state called eleven witnesses.
