Accused contract killers to face trial for GGMC engineer’s murder

Steven Prescott

Orin Arthur, Steven Prescott, and Uree Varswyk, the three men charged with the murder of Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) engineer Trevor Abrams, were yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

A large contingent of heavily armed police officers were assembled in the compound of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts complex when the decision was handed down by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the conclusion of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against the men.

Arthur, Prescott, and Varswyk are accused of murdering Abrams in a contracted hit on February 27, 2015, at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

The magistrate delivered her decision after