A mother and daughter were Tuesday found guilty of lying to Police investigators in an attempt to frame a man for murder.Charlene Bess, and her daughter Melany Garraway, had claimed they saw Shawn Barrow gun down 22-year-old Kellon Hinds on August 31 last.

Due to the women statements, the Police charged Barrow, 23, also called “Baige,” of Lot 8 East La Penitence for the murder of Hinds.

Barrow had spent several months on remand but was freed after witnesses testified on behalf of the accused that he was at fast food restaurant Royal Castle at the time of the murder. Video footage also supported the witnesses claims.

The two women, both relatives of Kellon Hinds, had later given the Police a second statement stating that they did not see the alleged shooter.

City Magistrate Annette Singh found the women guilty and sentenced them to pay a fine of $25,000 each or three months imprisonment.

Hinds, of East Ruimveldt Squatting Area, Georgetown, was fatally shot on August 31, last year by three men in his family’s yard just hours after being released from Police custody.

According to members of his family, Hinds had been held by police as a suspect in the murder of Shawn’s brother, Sherwin Barrow, who was killed three months prior.