CITY Magistrate Judy Latchman will Today rule on whether a prima facie case has been made out against four men who are accused of killing Guyana Geology and Mines (GGMC) engineer, Trevor Abrams.

Principal Magistrate Latchman is presiding over the matter which is being done by paper committal. When the matter continued on Thursday, Police Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Vishnu Hunt was expected to lay over his submission to the court.

However, Magistrate Latchman adjourned the matter to June 30, at 13:30hrs for Hunt’s submission, after which her ruling will follow.
Orin Arthur, 29 of One Mile Wismar, Linden;; Steven Prescott a/k ‘Assassin’, 46, of Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara; and Yori Varswyk, 28, of Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara are jointly charged with the engineer’s murder.

According to reports, Abrams, 32, of Lot 131 Samatta Point, East Bank Demerara, was riddled with bullets on February 26, 2015, at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara, after heavily armed men ambushed him and opened fire on his vehicle.
In November 2015, Arthur and Varswyk were committed by City Magistrate, Fabayo Azore to stand trial at the High Court for the murder of Security guard, Wilfred Stewart during a raid at the Sterling Products Limited (SPL) offices at Providence in 2014.

Another man, Rayon Paddy, was also charged with the crime but perished during the March 3 Camp Street Prison fire, which claimed the lives of 17 inmates.
Stewart, of Graham’s Hall, ECD was on duty when a gang stormed the SPL compound. After fatally shooting Stewart and wounding Mario Gohill, an Indian national working as a chemist at SPL, the invading bandits made their way to the accounts department at the SPL Providence complex. However, they were met with a locked safe and decided to abort the robbery and flee the compound.