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A PRISON officer who was accused of fatally stabbing a colleague during a confrontation linked to a romantic dispute has been acquitted after a jury accepted that he had acted in self-defence.
After deliberating at the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain on Wednesday, a 12-member jury returned a not-guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jevon Atiba Sylvester before Justice Maria Busby Earle-Caddle.
Sylvester, now in his mid-30s, had been charged with the June 2014 killing of 37-year-old prison officer Dominique Bernard.
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