Three years after his first trial ended in a hung jury, murder accused Rondell Bacchus appeared before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday for the commencement of his retrial into the 2008 murder of scrap iron dealer Akbar Alli.
In 2013, Bacchus was charged along with Andrew Morris, with the murder of Alli. The duo had allegedly used a gun to rob the wife of the deceased, Bibi Rameena Hydar Alli, of $2.1 million and fatally shot her husband in the process.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had subsequently withdrawn the charge against Morris due to the lack of evidence.
Throughout the better part yesterday’s proceedings, Defence Counsel Nigel Hughes made attempts to
