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Five men have been freed of mur­der­ing a cou­ple in Laven­tille af­ter spend­ing al­most a decade on re­mand await­ing tri­al.

Olatun­ji “Ola” Den­bow, Michael “Mikey” Find­lay, Kyle Bel­grave, Seon “Max” Barn­swell, and Kelon Max­ine were dis­charged af­ter State pros­e­cu­tors of­fered no ev­i­dence against them when their case came up for tri­al be­fore High Court Judge Trevor Jones at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The men were ac­cused of mur­der­ing An­dre La Touche and Abi­o­la Noel on Feb­ru­ary 22, 2016.