LENNOX Wayne, called ‘Two Colours’, who has spent the last eight years on remand for the 2014 murder of cosmetologist, Ashmini Harriram, was, on Tuesday, acquitted of the crime.

Wayne was on trial before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Demerara High Court for the capital offence which read that, on July 10, 2014, at Lusignan, Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, he murdered Harriram.

After deliberating for almost two hours, the 12-member jury found Wayne not guilty.

He was represented by attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes and associates, while prosecutor Lisa Cave presented the state’s case.

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.

The case later came up before Justice Sandil Kissoon, however, this too ended in a hung verdict.

In April, Wayne’s co-accused, Melroy Doris, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to five years.

Doris testified during Wayne’s trial as the state’s key witness.

The Guyana Chronicle had reported Wayne was allegedly 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.