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Today, the Court of Appeal granted the appeal of Edward Buller who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in jail.

His attorney, Anthony Sylvestre was able to succeed on the single ground that the trial judge failed to give the jury a proper direction to a technical aspect of the case.

His 16-year sentence was set aside, and a retrial was ordered, with the reasons for the decision to be delivered at a later date.

Buller was charged with the murder of Ella Mae Bennett who was found partially nude with wounds to head and face on June 20, 2009. Her body was discovered in an abandoned bungalow concrete building on Central American Boulevard. The Investigators found a bloody cement block next to her body.

On September 19, 2011, Buller was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter in his first case. A caution statement Buller gave to police was admitted as evidence in that first case. He admitted then that he and Bennett had an argument and a struggle over a “smokeâ€￾, and that’s when he pushed her down.