A 32-year-old woman, who was charged along­side her fa­ther for mur­der­ing her moth­er four years af­ter her death was ruled to be sui­cide, has been freed.

Shas­tri Ja­groo, of McBean, Cou­va, was or­dered to be re­leased from cus­tody on Wednes­day by High Court Mas­ter Shabi­ki Caz­abon af­ter the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) of­fi­cial­ly dis­con­tin­ued the case against her. The case was al­so dis­con­tin­ued against Ja­groo’s fa­ther Se­wak, who was charged along­side her in 2018.

How­ev­er, the el­der Ja­groo, a 65-year-old labour­er from Cu­mu­to, died on Jan­u­ary 1 while on re­mand for the crime. The Ja­groos were ac­cused of mur­der­ing Es­ther Williams in 2014.

Williams, a 54-year-old house­wife, was found hang­ing at the home she shared with the el­der Ja­groo.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives con­tin­ued in­ves­ti­ga­tions as a post-mortem stat­ed that she died of lig­a­ture stran­gu­la­tion and her body had mul­ti­ple blunt trau­mat­ic in­juries which were in­con­sis­tent with the sui­cide claim from her rel­a­tives, who claimed to have found her body.

The Ja­groos were ar­rest­ed by de­tec­tives of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Cold Case Unit in Au­gust 2018 and were charged. Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that while pros­e­cu­tors dis­closed ev­i­dence in the case since charg­ing the rel­a­tives, there was no sub­stan­tial ev­i­dence to prove that the younger Ja­groo was re­spon­si­ble for her moth­er’s death.

The Shas­tri Ja­groo was rep­re­sent­ed by Criston J Williams and Aaron Lewis of Quan­tum Le­gal.

Her fa­ther was rep­re­sent­ed by Shuzvon Ram­dass, of the Pub­lic De­fend­ers’ De­part­ment (PDD).

Ay­oola George rep­re­sent­ed the DPP’s Of­fice.