Currently facing several death sentences for his role in the February 2008 Bartica massacre in which 12 men, including three police officers were killed; Mark Royden Williams, called “Smallie,” was yesterday sentenced to hang.
This time it was for the shooting death of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank Ivor Williams—a month before the murderous rampage at Bartica—when his patrol came under heavy gunfire from the Rondell “Fine Man” Rawlins gang which at the time wreaked havoc along the East Coast corridor and other parts of the country.
“You shall be hanged by the neck until dead,” Justice Sandil Kissoon late yesterday afternoon told the convict who sat quietly with his face mask on at the Lusignan Prison, from where he joined the proceedings virtually.