“Nervous” for trial Monday over 2017 bus park murder

Accused of stabbing a man to death during a robbery in 2017, 30-year-old Wayne Gilbert will go on trial from Monday for the capital offence of murder.
Arraigned before Demerara High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon on Thursday, Wayne called “Nervous” formerly of West La Penitence, Georgetown pleaded not guilty to the charge.

It is alleged that on January 20, 2017, in the county of Demerara, he murdered Rawle Rodrigues during the course/furtherance of a robbery.
The murder accused is being represented by Senior Counsel Stanley Moore while State Counsel Muntaz Ali and State Counsel Taneisha Saygon are the prosecutors.
Wayne, a remanded prisoner, was first charged with the murder of the 43-year-old man in December 2017.
After a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) in 2019, a Georgetown Magistrate committed him to stand trial for the offence after ruling that prima facie was made out against him.
Reports are that Rodrigues of Leopold Street, Georgetown was stabbed multiple after he was attacked by three men at the Route 32 Minibus Park, in Georgetown.
It was reported that the trio had trailed the man from a nearby bar where he had been imbibing to the bus park.

At the bus park, there was reportedly an altercation between the now dead man and two of the men during which one of them stabbed him to the chest.
An injured Rodrigues was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he died. (G8)