A man who was yesterday afternoon acquitted of charges that he had raped a nine-year-old girl, was encouraged by Justice Brassington Reynolds to use the opportunity granted to him to avoid brushes with the law in future.
To a tearful Vishnu Persaud, the judge said he hopes the experience of having to face trial would have been a salutary one.
“Only God knows what really happened,” the judge said.
Before discharging the former accused and informing him that he was free to go, Justice Reynolds expressed hope that Persaud would continue to be the father and mother he told the court he is to his children.