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Af­ter spend­ing over 15 years on re­mand, a 59-year-old man has been freed of mur­der­ing a Ger­man en­gi­neer in To­ba­go.

Shel­don Keel was found not guilty by High Court Judge Sherene Mur­ray-Bai­ley at the end of his judge-alone tri­al, last Fri­day.

Keel was joint­ly charged with his for­mer land­lord Ainsworth Williams for mur­der­ing Ger­man na­tion­al Pe­ter Taut on an un­known date be­tween Oc­to­ber 30 and No­vem­ber 2, 2009.