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After a little over eight years in prison for a 2016 murder, a La Horquetta man has been freed by a jury directed to return a not-guilty verdict in his favour.

Arnold Mayers was before Justice Mauricia Joseph and a jury at the Hall of Justice, Port of Spain, charged with the murder of his La Horquetta neighbour Salim Gonzales.

Gonzales, 19, of Phase 6, La Horquetta, was shot in the eye while in the company of a friend at Irwin Mc Williams Street, Phase 6, La Horquetta. He died at the scene.