Lethem youth pleads guilty to killing drinking buddy

Lethem resident Fabian Abrahams has pleaded guilty to the offence of manslaughter — committed on
Leron Ault, also called “Junior”, of Moco Moco Village in Central Rupununi in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) in 2020.

In proceedings that took place on Wednesday in the Georgetown court of Principal Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty, it was revealed that Abrahams and Ault had been acquainted, and had been drinking at a friend’s workshop on March 25, 2020 where Ault became embroiled in a dispute with another individual.
Abrahams had intervened by reportedly asking Ault, “What happen to you? You come and reach we, and we deh pon we own itation,” in attempting to diffuse the situation.
However, after Abrahams had gone into the workshop to grab a spanner to attend to his motorcycle, as he came out of the workshop, an altercation broke out between him and Ault; and in a fit of rage, he struck Ault twice with the spanner — once to the side of his head and once to his chest.
Ault collapsed, and Abrahams fled the scene. Taken to the Lethem Hospital, Ault was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. A post-mortem examination conducted the following day confirmed that blunt force trauma to the head had caused cerebral haemorrhage that led to his death.
Abrahams is scheduled to return to court on November 14 for sentencing.