Local cricketer Carlyle Barton is now a free man after the murder charge against him was discharged at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Magistrate Fabayo Azore, before whom the preliminary inquiry was being conducted, found that insufficient evidence was offered by the prosecution and as such a prima facie case could not be made out.
A number of witnesses scheduled to testify in the case on behalf of the prosecution did not appear in court, although the matter was called at least eight times
