JOSEPH Kaladin, called ‘Joey’, who unlawfully killed his brother, Ganesh Nabi, called ‘Vandam’, in a fight that followed a rum spree in 2010, was freed by the jury yesterday.Police investigating the killing had charged Kaladin with manslaughter.
At his trial at the Demerara Assizes, Kaladin, who conducted his own defence, pleaded not guilty, and called two witnesses in his defence.

Lawyer Ms. Teshana Lake was the leading prosecutrix for the prosecution. The prosecution’s case was built on an incident that occurred on November 19, 2010, when the two brothers were involved in a rum spree which ended in a fight. During the fight, Nabi was injured with a broken Coke bottle.

Following the judge’s summing-up yesterday, the mixed jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty. Justice Jo-Ann Barlow discharged the accused, but before he left the dock, the judge advised him to turn a new leaf in the book of life.
She told him about the evils of alcohol, which he resorted to use rather than following his father’s example. She expressed hope that he would turn his life around.

The freed man said, “Thank you” to the judge and jury, and left the dock as a man in a hurry.

By George Barclay