DPP orders retrial for businessman who killed bandit

Georgetown: The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered a retrial for murder accuse Lawrence Wayne whose case was discharged on a no case submission by his attorney Mark Waldron.

The murder case against Lawrence Wayne was discharged by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts in October 2015. On Friday last, an arrest warrant was issued by Chief Magistrate McLennan Lawrence Wayne. The indictable charge read that between August 23 and 24, 2014, in Alberttown, Georgetown, he murdered Dexter Lindo.

According to the particulars of the charge, on the day in question the defendant shot the deceased four times, resulting in his death.

According to Police reports, Lindo, 26, was involved in a robbery at the Merriman Mall minutes before the shooting incident.

Police investigations revealed that about 13:15h on the day in question, Lindo and an accomplice, both armed with hand guns, entered Wayne Beverage Paradise stall, which belongs to the defendant, located at Merriman Mall, Bourda, with the intention of committing a felony.

As they entered the business place, the proprietress detected something amiss and raised an alarm, which led to the defendant responding to her alarm.

The two men reportedly ran out of the business establishment and entered a waiting car being driven by a third person, but the defendant who is a licensed firearm holder followed the car and caught up with it at Light and Fifth Streets, Alberttown.

There, the businessman confronted Lindo, who had exited the getaway car and entered a shop in the area. As Lindo entered the shop, he reportedly pulled out a firearm and there was an exchange of gunshots, resulting in him being shot to the abdomen.

An injured Lindo managed to escape on foot, but an unlicensed .32 Beretta Pistol with four rounds that he was carrying were recovered at the scene and handed over to the Police.

In presenting his no case submission, attorney Waldron case was the footage being used as evidence had disappeared.

The Magistrate had highlighted that the prosecution did not provide any direct evidence, but only circumstantial evidence.

She had ruled to stop the Preliminary Inquiry and upheld the no-case submission, and discharged the case.

The deceased’s mother had indicated she would take the matter further.