AFTER hours of deliberation, a 12-member jury on Friday found Travis Mc Dougall guilty for the lesser count of manslaughter for the August 18, 2014 killing of Pike Street businessman Ashokkoemar Ragghu.

The matter was heard before Justice Navindra Singh in the Georgetown High Court where during the verdict, the foreman declared that they unanimously found Mc Dougall not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter in the proportion of 10 to two.

In the absence of defence counsel Nigel Hughes, another attorney Jed Vasconcellos appeared on Mc Dougall’s behalf.

Justice Singh however, adjourned Mc Dougall’s sentencing to June 12, 2017, when defence counsel Nigel Hughes will be present to make a plea of mitigation for his client following the presentation of a probation report.

At this point, Mc Dougall was escorted out of the courtroom and led away to jail.

Ragghu was killed during a robbery on August 18, 2014 at 13:30hrs at the junction of Regent Street and Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.

Ragghu and his wife Shyrazadi Ragghu were in their motorcar, PGG 8291, when they stopped at the traffic light to obey the traffic signals.

Two men rode up on a CG motorcycle at the driver’s side. It had been further alleged that one of the men grabbed a haversack containing $4M, but Shyrazadi held on to the haversack and was shot in the thigh but survived the incident.

Ragghu was pronounced dead on arrival at the GPHC. In July 2015, Travis Mc Dougall was committed to stand trial for murder along with pork-knocker Jermaine Otto, who was one of the prisoners that perished in the deadly Camp Street prison fire, following riots in March 2016.

Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh, testified that he had performed the post- mortem on the body of Ashokkoemar Ragghu at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). He gave the cause of death as perforation of the lung due to a gunshot .