3 found not guilty in fatal beating of farmer

The three men who had been charged in connection with a brutal gang attack that had left 24-year-old Cheddi Eshwar Sawh dead walked out of the Berbice High Court as free men on Wednesday, after a jury found them not guilty of the capital offence of murder.
Before Justice Navindra Singh, Reaz Munroe, 23, Reaz Hack, 28, and Sunil Manniram, 28, had been on trial for the murder of Sawh, of Grant 2767 Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice, after they had each entered a not guilty plea to the joint murder indictment.
According to the indictment, Sawh was killed between July 23 and July 29, 2017. Just after he had left his girlfriend’s home at around 10:30h on July 23, 2017, Sawh was reportedly attacked by a group of seven men, who were armed with pieces of wood, and was left for dead.
Mostly beaten in the head, Sawh was left with severe injuries, and was admitted in a critical condition at the hospital, where he died without regaining consciousness six days later.
April 2019, Surendranauth Sookdeo, who along with Munroe, Hack, and Manniram had been committed to stand trial for the capital offence, was freed after the indictment against him was quashed by High Court Judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln on the ground of insufficient evidence. (G1)