Travis Evans also known as ‘Short Boss,’ has been handed a life sentence for the 2018 killing of Kuru Kururu legal clerk, Gregory Frank, who an autopsy revealed had been strangled.
This is the second life sentence to have been imposed upon Evans who had pleaded guilty to killing Timehri youth Ronsley Clarke, just around the same time as he had killed Frank.
In imposing the sentence on Tuesday, High Court Judge Jo-Ann Barlow ordered that the offender not be considered eligible for parole, until after he would have served at least 25 years behind bars.
Evans had originally been indicted for murder, but pleaded instead to the lesser count of manslaughter at his arraignment earlier this month, for killing the man during a robbery.
He admitted when the charge was read, that between July 31 and August 2, 2018 at Kuru Kururu, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, in the company of others, he unlawfully killed Frank during a robbery.
Back in April of 2021 Justice Sandil Kissoon had sentenced Evans to life in prison for the killing of Timehri youth Ronsley Clarke, whom he admitted shooting over a previous disagreement.
That Judge, too, had ordered that the offender no be considered for parole until after he would have served a minimum of 25 years.
To Clarke’s killing, Evans had also admitted guilt on the lesser count of manslaughter, though he had originally been indicted for the capital offence.
Frank’s killing
Regarding Frank’s killing, previous reports had stated that the 46-year-old legal clerk of Lot 686 Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, was found dead in a pool of blood in his home.
It was immediately evident that he had been killed during a burglary.
A post-mortem examination later revealed that the man died from asphyxiation due to a compression injury to the neck along with blunt trauma to the head.
Police in a press statement at the time had said that Frank’s body was discovered in the living room of his home.
The statement said the rear door to Frank’s home was found ajar and the entire house was ransacked.
Frank’s sister had indicated that two flat-screen televisions, among other valuables, were stolen from the house.
Initially, three persons, including Evans, were in early August 2018 held in connection with the murder and questioned. The other two persons, however, were later released.
Clarke’s killing
Meanwhile; regarding Clarke, Evans had accepted when that charge was read to him, that on August 2nd, 2018 he unlawfully killed the young man.
The State’s case was that on the day in question Clarke was attending a birthday celebration at ‘C’ Field Sophia and was sitting on a horse cart in the company of friends when Evans went up to him and shot him three times, before escaping.
Prosecutors said that Evans subsequently gave a caution statement admitting to the offence; stating that he and Clarke had had a disagreement the day before and that that was his reason for killing him.
An autopsy revealed that Clarke died from haemorrhage and shock due to multiple gunshot injuries.
In December of 2019, Evans admitted to raping and robbing a woman at knife-point of $650,000 in a 2010 attack.
He later withdrew his plea to the rape, stating that he felt pressured into admitting guilt on the sexual offence for which he is now awaiting trial.
He was, however, sentenced to three years on the robbery charge.
He was also one of three prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison in October 2018.
