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Feb 17, 2013 News
– lack of evidence cited
One of the men accused of killing five Kaieteur News pressmen on August 8, 2006, is now free of the charge. This newspaper was told that Dwight Da Silva was freed of the murder charge. Da Silva, along with Quincy Evans and Jermaine Charles called ‘Skinny’ now deceased, were charged for the murders of Eion Wegman, Richard Stuart, Mark Maikoo, Shazim Mohamed and Chetram Persaud. Evans was previously freed in the Magistrate’s court.
According to sources within the Director of Public Prosecutions, the matter against DaSilva was discharged because of the lack of evidence. He was released from prison sometime last week.
The men were cold bloodedly slain on Tuesday August 8, 2006 at the Kaieteur News Printing facility at Eccles Industrial Site.
DaSilva was also freed in the case of Caneville businessman Barbot Paul back in June 2012. Problems with the identification evidence of a 16-year-old girl, whose description of a murder accused rested on the words “a tall dark man” and “a short brown man” resulted in murder accused Da Silva being freed on a no-case submission.
Businessman Barbot Paul was murdered on August 6, 2006. Da Silva was accused of entering the business premises at Grove, EBD along with other gunmen and killed Paul in a robbery bid.
Barbot’s wife, Latifan, who had seen the shooting, did not identify the gunman, but her granddaughter, Nazeema Persaud, who at first gave the impression that she had identified the accused as a person she used to see when she visited her mother at Glasgow, East Bank Berbice, told the jury that the only information she had about the men was “that one was “tall and dark” and the other was “short and brown”. Those statistics fitted a number of persons, including defence counsel and two members of the jury, the girl explained under cross-examination.
The accused who was represented by Attorney-at-Law George Thomas, pleaded not guilty to the crime.
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