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A taxi dri­ver from To­ba­go has been freed of charges for al­leged­ly rap­ing a pas­sen­ger due to de­lays in pros­e­cut­ing his case.

Royson Cae­sar was dis­charged by High Court Mas­ter Deli­cia Bethelmy as his case came up for suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing yes­ter­day.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that al­though Cae­sar and his at­tor­ney, Amit Ma­habir, were present for the vir­tu­al hear­ing, State pros­e­cu­tors as­signed to the case and the po­lice of­fi­cer who charged him were not.