Fabian Abraham, a 24-year-old resident of Kanuku Drive, Lethem, Region Nine, has been sentenced to six years in prison for the fatal beating of 48-year-old farmer Leroy Ault.
The incident occurred during a heated altercation on March 25, 2020, and the sentence was handed down by Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Demerara on November 15 2024.
Initially indicted for murder, Abraham pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter, admitting to striking Ault in the head with a piece of iron during a melee. Ault, a farmer from Moco Moco Village, Central Rupununi, succumbed to his injuries at the Lethem Regional Hospital. At the time of the attack, Abraham was just 19 years old.
