A Vista­bel­la woman who told po­lice she act­ed in self-de­fence af­ter hours of al­leged abuse has been re­leased from cus­tody, with no charges laid fol­low­ing ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.

Verona Ghany, 45, walked out of the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day around mid­day ac­com­pa­nied by her at­tor­ney Prakash Ra­mad­har, four days af­ter she sur­ren­dered to in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

Ghany had been de­tained in con­nec­tion with the shoot­ing death of her hus­band, 37-year-old busi­ness­man Steve Ghany Ju­nior, at their Alexan­der Street, Vista­bel­la home on Wednes­day morn­ing.