IT all happened at the Demerara Assizes between Monday and yesterday before Justice Dawn Gregory and Justice Roxanne George. On Monday, the freed accused Omeka Henry who conducted her own defence before Justice Gregory, was found not guilty by the jury of unlawfully killing Wilkinson Halley also called “Wilkie,” her reputed husband.
The alleged offence was said to have been committed at Farm, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara on Monday, 30th October, 2006.
The accused Henry conducted her own defence and was able to persuade the jury that she had acted in self-defence.
Meanwhile, at his manslaughter trial before Justice Roxane George, yesterday, goldsmith Bramanand Singh, who allegedly killed his father Mansa Singh between Thursday 27th and 28th of January, 2005, at 51 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, was defended by Attorney-at-Law, Ms. Sonia Parag.
The prosecution conducted by Ms. Shawnett Austin had contended that the accused’s father, who had come home in a drunken state that evening when he was cursing everybody, remained downstairs on a swinger.
The following morning, Mansa Singh was found dead under the house with marks of violence about the body.
Bramanand reported the matter to the police and was subsequently charged with manslaughter.
He pleaded not guilty and claimed he had nothing to do with the death of his father. They never had a problem, he told the jury.
Following the judge’s summing up, the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty.

By George Barclay