AFTER four hours of deliberations, the jury was unable to arrive at a verdict in the retrial of Lennox Wayne, called “Two Colours”, who is accused of murdering cosmetologist, Ashmini Harriram. On Friday, a 12-member jury was unable to arrive at a verdict, even after further direction was given by Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court. Based on this development, Wayne was remanded to prison, and will be retried at the next practical sitting of the Demerara Assizes.
He was represented by attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes and associates, while prosecutor Lisa Cave is on record for the state.
Wayne had pleaded not guilty to the charge, which alleged that on July 10, 2014, at the Lusignan Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, he murdered Harriram.
The murder case was first tried in 2017 before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the Georgetown High Court, but ended in a hung jury. Justice Barlow subsequently ordered a retrial, and the matter was listed to be heard during the January 2021 session of the Demerara Assizes.

In April, Wayne’s co-accused, Melroy Doris, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to five years.
The Guyana Chronicle had reported that it was alleged that Wayne was the triggerman while Doris was the taxi driver who drove Wayne to the scene of the crime to execute Harriram.
It is also alleged that following the act, Doris reportedly transported Wayne back to the city where the victim’s phone was handed over to one of the two persons who contracted the duo to carry out the murderous act for a price tag of $2.5 million.
The two men were reportedly contracted by the brother-in-law of the hairdresser and an accomplice who wanted her dead after they suspected that she had snitched on them. They believed that it was she who had informed the police of a drug operation they were engaged in, resulting in the narcotics being seized.