Three persons, including a husband and wife, were yesterday charged jointly with the wedding house murder of Victor Williams when they appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson who later remanded them to prison.
Trevor Abrams aka Rubber, 41, Frank Henry aka Frankie, 39, and Josephine Henry, 41, all of Friendship Canal, Lower Pomeroon were not required to plead when the charge was read to them. It is alleged that on July 22 at Friendship Canal, Lower Pomeroon they murdered Williams.
When they were given a chance to speak, Frank said he and his wife have eight children. He said that he was picked up by the police because Abrams had stayed at his home for three months.
He was then asked by Magistrate Robertson why Abrams stayed at his home. He replied that he had known Abrams since they were children and at the time Abrams had no where else to go since he did not have any immediate family in the area. He reiterated, “I was picked up because of him.”
Meanwhile Abrams told the court that on the day in question, he went to the wedding house when Williams approached him while he was smoking a cigarette at the dam. He alleged that Williams looked at him and said “you know how long I bin looking for you.”
This approach by Williams, he said, was as a result of a problem he had with some members of Abrams’s family. He said that he was then butted in the forehead by Williams and then he ran away. However he said he was pursued by Williams who grabbed him by the hair and used a bottle to hit him about the body. He said that the bottle fell and broke and he picked it up and stabbed Williams with it.
He added that claims by eyewitnesses that he and the Henrys were in a gutter with `Willo’ were simply not true.
The prosecutor asked the magistrate to record that there was a visible injury on Abrams’s forehead which had required seven stitches as well as other injuries to the hands.
Prosecutor Inspector Stephen Telford said that the advice he had received from the DPP was to proceed against the trio. He made an application for them to be remanded and the matter transferred to the Charity Magistrate’s Court.
His application was granted and the matter is to come up on September 23.
The police had stated that investigations revealed that Williams was involved in an altercation with two men and a woman at a wedding house in the Pomeroon River area at ‘Friendship Canal,’ approximately 12 to 15 miles from Charity, during which he was allegedly beaten and stabbed. He was subsequently taken to the Charity Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.