THREE men were on Monday jointly charged for the murder of Edward Beharry security guard Wilbert Stewart in 2014 after an application by Prosecutor Sergeant Neville Jeffers, who requested that the men be tried together.

Initially Ryan Paddy and Orin Arthur were charged for the murder of the security guard in April, then in June Uree Voswick was apprehended by the police over the same murder of the guard.
However, the prosecutor’s application was strongly objected to by Uree’s lawyer, Attorney-at-law Mottee Singh. Singh argued that his client was sent packing on remand for an offence, but he was never placed on an identification parade by the police, neither did they provide any nexus to tie Uree to the murder.
Despite the lawyer’s objection, Magistrate Ann McLennan ruled in favour of the prosecution and reread the murder charge to join the three defendants for the offence and further remanded them until September 14.
On April 13 Paddy and Arthur appeared in Court One of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for the first time where they were first read the charge of murder. It stated that they murdered Wilfred Stewart at Sterling Products Limited on December 8, 2014 at Providence, East Bank Demerara during the course of a robbery.
It is alleged that during the shooting at Sterling Products, eyewitnesses related to police that a carload of men showed up at the facility and barged into the compound. They first turned their attention to Stewart who was carrying a firearm and shot him twice, killing him in the process.
They also injured Indian national Gabriel Dass before attempting to make their way to the finance department of the company. Those efforts were, however, unsuccessful but the men relieved the security guard of his firearm after killing him.
Meanwhile, Arthur and Paddy were jointly charged with the murder of Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) engineer Trevor Abrams, who was shot dead on Monday, February 21, at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
Paddy and Arthur are currently before the court on several charges ranging from possession of an illegal firearm, possession of narcotics, abduction and robbery under arms. The men allegedly posed as cops and carried out robberies at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, on Wednesday, March 18, 2015.