It was high drama at the High Court in Georgetown on Wednesday afternoon as security guard Marlon Callender was freed of a charge of murdering fisherman Envil Pollard over three years ago at the Pritipaul Wharf. He was on trial for the last several days for allegedly murdering Crane, West Coast Demerara fisherman and father of eight, Envil Pollard. However, the jury after two hours of deliberations returned a not guilty verdict and Callender walked out of a packed courtroom a free man, rushing into the arms of his loved ones.
Pollard died on January 29, 2015, after being shot and killed following a confrontation with Callender. The former accused claimed that Pollard approached him with a knife in his hand. Despite the defendant walking free, relatives of the deceased fisherman expressed great displeasure in the outcome, stating that they were denied justice, as Pollard’s common-law wife, Ashmoon Khan was most vocal in her despair, while holding on to the couple’s youngest child. The mother of eight cried out that the girl was less than two years old before her father was killed.
The fisherman’s sister, Sharon Pollard, similarly told Guyana Times that while they
