Gold mining brothers freed of land surveyor murder charge

Two brothers had a murder charge against them dismissed when they appeared before Magistrate Crystal Lambert recently at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court.

Randel Layne and Mario Moses of Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara, were indicted in December 2022 for the murder of land surveyor Ricky Ambrose and had been remanded to prison.

Dismissing the charge, Magistrate Lambert stated that during the committal proceedings the burden lay with the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the written statements and recording of the accused pointing to the spot where the alleged crime was committed were voluntarily provided.