Jamal Forde, the 26-year-old man who was accused of murdering a Sophia businessman in 2015, was yesterday freed after a no-case submission put forward by his attorneys was upheld.
The charge against Forde alleged that on May 1st, 2015, at ‘D’ Field, Sophia, he murdered Shawn Anys during the course or furtherance of a robbery.
Forde was on trial before Justice Sandil Kissoon and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown. Subsequent to the state’s representatives closing their case, Forde’s attorneys Ronald Burch-Smith and Keoma Griffith submitted that the state had no case against their client.
