A judge in the Cayman Islands has acquitted a man accused in the death of a former Saskatchewan resident.
The judge said the evidence was circumstantial and he wasn't convinced that fingerprints found inside Martin Gareau's seaside home were enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Josue Carillo Perez was responsible.
Gareau used to live in Prince Albert, Sask., but the 47-year-old had been working in the Cayman Islands for almost four years before he was slain in May 2008.
His cousin says she's very disappointed that the only man accused in the death has been set free.
"I was hoping that they had finally got the fellow," Claudette Radic said Wednesday "I just wish them luck. I hope that it doesn't go (on as an) unsolved case forever and ever."
Radic said she expected Perez would be set free because he repeated throughout the trial that he was Gareau's close friend.
The two had dinner the week before Gareau's bloody body was discovered.
Gareau's father said losing his son "hurts so much" that he doesn't want to comment about the trial's outcome.
Gareau was found beaten to death by a relative after he didn't show up at his job.
Police haven't charged anyone else with Gareau's death.
