Af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison, five men have been freed of mur­der­ing a man, whose body has nev­er been found.

Clive “Small­man” Charles, Joseph “Joe” Sam­my, Que­si “Blacks” Charles, Jaa­su “Fat Head” Gafoor and Markus “Tack” Julien were set free at the end of their tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Maria Bus­by-Ear­le-Cad­dle and a 12-mem­ber ju­ry at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

Jus­tice Bus­by-Ear­le-Cad­dle di­rect­ed the ju­ry to re­turn with unan­i­mous not guilty ver­dicts for the men af­ter up­hold­ing a no case sub­mis­sion from their le­gal team.