Boat builder, apprentice cleared of Pomeroon River murder

Rondell Edwards

The two men accused of killing Mohamed Abdool Shameer in a boat collision on the Pomeroon River had the murder charge against them dismissed yesterday after a court upheld a no-case submission made by their lawyer but they were committed to stand trial in the High Court on the lesser count of manslaughter.

Lennox Baharally, 24, a boat builder and the nephew of the deceased, and Rondell Edwards, 19, a boat builder’s apprentice, were charged in July last year with murdering Shameer.

The charge had stated that on April 25, the duo murdered Shameer in the Upper Pomeroon River. The men