Wayne Gilbert, who had been charged with the 2017 murder of Rawle Rodrigues, was on Monday granted his freedom after Justice Sandil Kissoon found that he had not signed a confession the police claimed he had given.
Gilbert, called ‘Nervous,’ was facing trial before a jury at the Demerara High Court for the January 20, 2017 killing of Rodrigues, who was stabbed during a robbery at the Croal Street bus park on.
Following a voir dire in which it was found that the alleged confession had not been signed by Gilbert and was therefore inadmissible, Justice Kissoon affirmed a no-case submission and directed the jury to return a formal verdict of not guilty in the young man’s favour.
