The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday ordered a retrial—setting aside the conviction and 57-year sentence imposed upon Quaison Jones for the alleged murder of Marlon Greene—holding that trial judge Navindra Singh, failed to sufficiently put Jones’ defence of self defence to the jury.
The High Court jury had heard in 2014 from a witness that the two fish cleaners had an argument at the Meadowbank wharf, during which Greene was stabbed multiple times. He subsequently died from the injuries inflicted.
Delivering the court’s ruling, acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards explained that contrary to the trial judge’s finding, self defence arose on the evidence, and as such the jury ought to have been directed accordingly.
