| Policeman freed of
manslaughter POLICEMAN Orville Tucker, indicted for manslaughter at the Demerara Assizes, was freed by Justice Roxanne George yesterday.
The
cop had been accused of
unlawfully killing Carl Abrams, who was shot dead
on November 13, 2005, at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara. But
the judge upheld a no-case submission by Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos
and ruled that the Prosecution, conducted by State Counsel Fabayo Azore,
failed to prove that the shooting was unlawful. No
one saw what happened and the accused claimed he was forced to fire his
gun after being attacked. De Santos submitted that Tucker was defending himself in accordance with his training.
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