The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday freed Jarvis Small of the murder of 16-year-old daughter Neesa Gopaul, while commuting the sentence of her mother to 25 years behind bars for the gruesome killing.
Small is being freed owing to the finding by the CCJ that his trial seven years ago for the murder of the former Queen’s Col-lege student was plagued by prejudicial evidence.
The Trinidad-based final appellate court for Guyana via a majority ruling yesterday afternoon said that the prejudicial evidence led by the prosecution against Small, rendered his conviction unsafe.