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Upcoming Demerara Assizes… Former soldier to face trial for manslaughter after shooting friend

Jun 03, 2018 News

Allister Woolford, a former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), who was charged with fatally shooting his friend, Devon Howell, is expected to face trial at the upcoming Demerara Assizes, which commences on Tuesday.
According to the list of cases published by the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Sueanna Lovell, Woolford has been indicted for manslaughter.
Woolford’s case is among the 223 cases listed for trial at the High Court in Georgetown.
It was previously reported that on November 21, 2014, Howell, 20, formerly of 87 Da Silva Street, Kitty and four other young men were in a house on D’Andrade Street, Newtown, where they were taking turns in “feeling the gun”.
It was during this gunplay that the gun went off and Howell was shot in his neck. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where he eventually succumbed almost three weeks after the incident. His upper spinal cord was reportedly damaged as a result of the shot and he never regained consciousness.
During November, 2014, Woolford was charged with Attempt to commit murder after Howell remained in a critical state at the Georgetown Public Hospital, days after the shooting. However, after Howell succumbed the charge of Attempt to commit murder was withdrawn, and a new charge of manslaughter was instituted.
The charge read that on December 8, 2014 at Lot 100 Republic and D’Andrade Streets, Newtown, Woolford unlawfully killed Howell. The accused killer is out on $400,000 bail.
During a preliminary inquiry into the offence at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, a total of 17 witnesses testified on behalf of the prosecution.

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