A FORMER security guard on Monday, October 07, 2019, confessed to killing his colleague during an argument three years ago, due to the man ‘troubling his daughter.’

Kevin Stephens, a former resident of La Penitence, Georgetown, was initially charged for murder, but he opted to plead to the lesser count of manslaughter.

Stephens pleaded guilty to the charge which read that, on September 17, 2016, at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara, he unlawfully killed Hubert Verwayne.
His attorney, George Thomas, requested that a probation report on his client be prepared and presented before sentencing.

The matter was adjourned until October 23, 2019 for hearing of the probation report and sentencing.

The accused reportedly told detectives that “they keep f*^#* around my daughter.”
Initial enquiries revealed that Verwayne was in the company of several other employees when the suspect, armed with a shotgun, approached in a rage, accusing the deceased and others of making ill remarks about his daughter. He then opened fire, killing Verwayne.
When arrested by police, Stephens claimed that he was being tantalised by his colleagues at the worksite, causing him to lose control.

A postmortem examination revealed that Verwayne died from a gunshot injury to the chest.