EUSTACE Abrams, called ‘Worrell’, who is currently serving a 15-year sentence for the fatal 2017shooting of Orlando La Cruz, a gold miner in the North West District, has moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge his sentence.In May, Abrams was found guilty by a 12-member jury of manslaughter, and was sentenced by Justice Brassington Reynolds to 15 years in prison and urged to “detox”, and “wean” himself away from alcoholism. And even though Justice Reynolds had ordered that the time he would have spent on remand be deducted from the sentence, Abrams is still unhappy, and recently, with the aid of an attorney, filed an appeal to challenge the severity of it.A date is yet to be fixed for the hearing.On June 15, 2017, La Cruz was fatally shot in the neck after he reportedly refused to perform oral sex on one of his two drinking buddies, who so happened to be Abrams and one Joseph Kerr.Reports are that La Cruz had invited the two men to his home for a ‘drink’, during the course of which Kerr allegedly asked him to do the act, and when he refused, an argument ensued.
Abrams’ role in the whole sordid affair is that he aided and abetted the shooting by loaning Kerr a shotgun cartridge, and when the deed was done, made good his escape, as did his partner.
Shortly thereafter, Abrams was reportedly arrested, while Kerr was only recently arrested after being on the run ever since.