THE FOUR men charged and remanded for the April 10, 2016 robbery and shooting at the Sunny Foods supermarket are currently standing trial for the crimes in the Grand Turk Supreme Court.
The length of the trial – which is now in its third week – was cut down significantly due to a culling of the witness list by the prosecutor, and it is now expected that the jury will soon get the case and deliver a decision sometime soon.
The defendants in the trial are: 27 year old Ewing George who is charged with robbery, and inflicting grievous bodily harm; while the three others 33-year-old Reginald Presil, 32-year-old Fritzer Prevalus, and Wilbert Almonor, all face charges of conspiracy to commit robbery.
The three charged with conspiracy to rob are Haitian nationals.
The case against the men stemmed from an armed robbery and shooting of a local security official and ex-superintendent of police Albion Williams outside of the Five Cays store in Providenciales last year.
Witness accounts of the brazen daylight robbery stated that the assailants were waiting for Williams – who is also the owner of Tag Security Services – to exit the store with the bag of money he normally collects from that location.
When he came out of the supermarket the men allegedly knocked him to the ground, grabbed the bag of money, fired three shots into Williams’ back and made good their escape.
The men were arrested in June last year and were charged with the crime.
George was arrested and charged later in the year.
