TWO men, who have been on remand since 2014 for the murder of two sisters and their father, were freed by the Demerara High Court on Tuesday after Justice Brassington Reynolds upheld a no-case submission made by their lawyers, Latchmie Rahamat and Dexter Todd.
Ganga Krishna called ‘Buddie’ and ‘Scientist’, a 74-year-old businessman, formerly of North Road, Bourda, Georgetown, and his assistant, Avishkar Bissoon, 26, of Sheriff Street, Campbellville, were on trial before Justice Reynolds.

The two charges stated that on November 17, 2014, at Lot 65 King and Robb Streets, Georgetown, the men murdered Clarissa, 14 and Theresa Rozario, 11, in the course or furtherance of arson on their dwelling house.

The last charge stated that on December 21, 2014, the men murdered 63-year-old Hilrod Attlee Thomas, also known as Rudolph Thomas.
The attorneys argued that the State does not have enough evidence to prosecute their client and so they made a no-case submission calling for the case to be dismissed.
Justice Reynolds ruled in favour of the submission and directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty.

The trial against the duo restarted on October 5, before a 12-memner jury after being aborted on two occasions.
According to reports, on November 17, 2014 at around 02:00 hours, Clarissa and Tressa Rozario were asleep along with their father when their house became engulfed in flames.
Their father managed to jump through a window to escape the fire but he sustained second and third-degree burns. On December 21, 2014, he succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

It is alleged that Krishna was the mastermind behind the fire, while Bissoon acted as his assistant.
The Guyana Chronicle had previously reported that investigations in this matter took the police two years when a drug addict reportedly confessed that he was offered money to set fire to the disputed building.

The accused were arrested in 2016.
The police believe that the building was torched to drive out the individuals who were also claiming ownership of the property by prescriptive rights.