Duo acquitted of 2014 murder

TWO men, who were on trial at the High Court for fatally shooting taxi driver, Raphael Campbell, during a robbery in 2014, was, on Wednesday, acquitted of the crime by a jury. Shawn Edinboro and Michael Bishop were arraigned before Justice Brassington Reynolds for the capital offence which read that between January 2 and 3, 2014 at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, they murdered Campbell. A 12-member jury, on Wednesday, after deliberating for almost two hours, found the two men not guilty of the crime. The men were represented by attorneys-at-law Latchmie Rahamat and Bernard DaSilva. The state was represented by prosecutors, Tyra Bakker and Seeta Bishundial. Last November, Sean Collins, who was jointly charged with Edinboro and Bishop, opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter. He was sentenced to serve 10 years’ in prison by Justice Navindra Singh. According to reports, on January 2, 2014, Campbell picked up Edinboro, Bishop and Collins on Camp Street, and, at their behest, took them to a location on the East Coast Demerara, where his body, minus the vehicle, was reportedly found the following day, January 3, 2014. The trio was later arrested in the stolen vehicle during a police roadblock on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

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