A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer and a se­cu­ri­ty guard have been freed of charges stem­ming from the al­leged kid­nap­ping, rape and at­tempt­ed mur­der of an 18-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al in 2020.

SRP of­fi­cer Aki­ni Ro­driguez, 26, of Dibe, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James, and Aaron Ramk­isoon, 20, of Wa­ter­hole, Co­corite, were dis­charged by High Court Mas­ter Kim­i­tria Gray at the con­clu­sion of their suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing ear­li­er this month.

Mas­ter Gray ruled that the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) had pre­sent­ed in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to war­rant the mat­ter pro­ceed­ing to tri­al be­fore a High Court judge and ju­ry or by judge alone.