Barama workers on trial for rape to lead defence

The three Barama workers accused of the 2007 rape and sodomy of a girl at the company’s Land of Canaan plywood plant will be called upon to lead a defence in the coming week as the High Court Trial into the matter continues

On trial are Paul Abrams, Claude Craig and Holston Melville, who are accused of taking turns raping and sodomizing the young woman who was 17 years old at the time. The incident was said to have taken place on December 5, 2007.

Having commenced last Tuesday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow, it is the prosecution’s case that