Nine years after being arrested and charged—and after facing two trials—Malcolm Culley, has been freed of the allegation that he had murdered elderly Albouystown businesswoman, Sumintra Dinool.
A jury on Tuesday acquitted Culley.
Following hours of deliberations, the 12-member panel unanimously found him not guilty of the charge which alleged that he, between June 14th and June 15th, 2014, at Barr Street, Albouystown, murdered Dinool in the course or furtherance of a robbery.
It had been Culley’s second trial. His first ended in a hung jury earlier this year with a then panel being unable to arrive at a unanimous finding of guilt or innocence.
The body of Dinool, 65, was discovered by one of her sons in their Sussex and Barr streets home. She was gagged and bound to her bed, with her hands and feet tied with telephone cables.
The man had told this newspaper that he had opened the front door with his keys and had noticed nothing amiss until he went into his room and found it completely ransacked.
He then made his way to his mother’s bedroom, where he had said he discovered her body.
Culley had initially been charged alongside Shaheed Ally. However, Ally was subsequently beaten to death by fellow inmates at the Lusignan Prison.
Culley’s trial was presided over by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the High Court in Denerara.
