Questions are being raised as to why the continuous absence of key witnesses in the Rondy Jagdeo murder case was used as the deciding factor in freeing the accused when there would have been overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against him.
Before bringing an end to the matter just five months after it was taken before the court, legal observers say, among the things that could have been considered was that the Water Street businessman was in hiding outside the country for two months and that his wife turned up at a private hospital with a gunshot wound, hours after Kirk Davis was killed. Jagdeo would also have had to produce an alibi for the night in question.
Jagdeo, a 33-year-old resident of Alexander Village had been accused of shooting his close friend 16 times on September 3 last year. He turned himself over to the police on October 28, weeks after a wanted bulletin had been issued for him. He was charged and placed before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courts two days later. During the
