THE trial for Roberto Miggins called Hot Skull and Quasi Benjamin called Rambo commenced on Monday before Justice Navindra Singh.
The two men were jointly charged for a murder at North West District.
When the indictment was read to the court, they both pleaded not guilty. The indictment read that between October 12 and 13, 2016, in the county of Essequibo, the duo murdered Mario Pozzer called Gaucho, in the course or furtherance of a robbery.
43-year-old Pozzer’s bullet-riddled body was found on October 13, 2016, by two of his workers.

A 12-member jury was impaneled and the trial ensued with the prosecution calling several witnesses to the stand, including workers from that camp that the now deceased had owned.

According to Gavin Campbell’s testimony, his boss, Pozzer, left their camp with several ounces of gold, as they had just washed up a production.
It wasn’t until the following day that they realized he never met where he was going. They then went in search of him and found his lifeless body lying on the trail, near his ATV bike.
Campbell said that the haversack containing the gold, that Pozzer had left with, was gone.
During cross examination by the prosecutors and the defense attorneys, Nigel Hughes and Adrian Thompson, it was raised that prior to Pozzer’s death, he fired Omar Williams, and never paid him. It was insinuated that Williams should have probably been a suspect, and not the two accused, who are not known to any of the witnesses.
The trial continues today before Justice Singh.

The State is being represented by Sarah Martin, Tuanna Hardy and Teriz Mohamed.