A 24-year-old miner yesterday walked out of the High Court in Georgetown a free man after being found not guilty of murdering a fellow miner.
Ewarth Cobis was acquitted after a 12-member jury unanimously found him not guilty of both the capital offence and the lesser count of manslaughter for the death of Richard Joseph.
The visibly-relieved young man expressed gratitude after Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall told him that he was free to go.
The allegation against Cobis was that on December 11, 2012, at Port Kaituma, North West District,