CRICKETER Carlyle Barton, 23, had the murder charge against him dismissed yesterday by Magistrate Fabayo Azore.

At the end of the preliminary inquiry (PI) the court found that insufficient evidence was offered by the prosecution against he accused, of Lot 39 Hadfield Street, Georgetown.
A prima facie case had not been made out against Barton because of the absence of prosecution witnesses to testify.
It had been alleged that, on May 27, about 06:30 hrs at Orange walk, Barton murdered 39-year-old Shawn Nelson, of Joseph Pollydore Street, also in Georgetown.
The accused was represented by attorney at law, Mr. Mark Waldron.
Police had reported that Nelson died from a gunshot wound in his head after being shot, while walking on his way to work, by a man who disembarked a motorcar and fired at him.
He had been taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where he died and a post-mortem determined that Nelson’s cause of death was shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot injury.
The accused, a well-known member of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), is alleged to have fled the murder scene and crashed the motor car he was driving into a utility pole.
Nelson, who was employed at Eagles Bar on Robb Street, was involved in an argument with another man on Orange Walk, when he was killed and the shooter, who was caught in video footage from a surveillance camera at a nearby business place, later surrendered to police.