A man from east Port-of-Spain has been cleared of shoot­ing at a group of po­lice of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing now Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, over two decades ago.

Ken Fos­ter, of Char­ford Court, was ac­quit­ted of sev­er­al crim­i­nal charges at the end of his judge-alone tri­al be­fore High Court Judge Hay­den St Clair-Dou­glas on Tues­day morn­ing.

Jus­tice St Clair-Dou­glas found the pros­e­cu­tion had not proven its case be­yond rea­son­able doubt, re­ject­ing the tes­ti­mo­ny of Alexan­der and his for­mer col­leagues. “Look­ing at the ev­i­dence as a whole, I am not sure the ac­cused shot at any­one. I am not sure he was in pos­ses­sion of a firearm or am­mu­ni­tion,” the judge said.