Man Found Not Guilty in Accessory to Murder Case
Allan Sim Jr has been acquitted of being an accessory after the fact to murder. He was tried at the High Court in Demerara, where the jury returned a majority not guilty verdict on Wednesday.
Judge Peter Hugh presided over the case, with Attorney Yuborn Allicock representing Sim.
Dead: Melissa Skeete
Sim Jr faced allegations that he had assisted his father, Allan Sim Sr, who is serving a 60-year sentence for the murder of Melissa Skeete, an ambulance dispatcher at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The charge against Sim Jr alleged that he provided comfort and assistance to his father on November 25, 2015, in the county of Demerara, knowing of the murder.
Skeete, 31, was fatally stabbed and left bleeding on Carmichael Street in Georgetown.
Sim Sr, her common-law partner and father of two of her children, has appealed both his conviction and the lengthy prison term. The case is yet to be heard by the Court of Appeal.
