‘Short Boss’ admits to killing legal clerk

Travis Evans called ‘Short Boss’ has confessed to the 2018 murder of 46-year-old Legal Clerk, Gregory ‘Wayne’ Frank.

Evans, 28, formally of ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was indicted before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Demerara High Court for the capital offence.

He pleaded guilty to the charge which alleged that between July 31 – August 2, 2018, at Kuru Kururu Soesdyke/Linden Highway, he murdered Frank in the company of others during a robbery.

Sentencing was deferred until November 28, 2023.

The News Room had reported that on August 2, 2018, Frank’s body was discovered in the living room of his one-flat home with a swollen forehead.

The rear door to Frank’s home was found ajar and the entire house was ransacked. Valuables were also reported missing from the house.

An autopsy found that Frank died from asphyxiation due to a compression injury to the neck, compounded by blunt trauma to the head

Evans is currently serving a life sentence for the 2018 execution-style killing of Ronsley Clarke outside of a ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Georgetown shop.

In April 2021, Evans was sentenced by Justice Sandil Kissoon after opting to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.

Justice Kissoon had sentenced Evans to life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole after serving 25 years.

In 2021, Evans was sentenced to three years in prison for an armed robbery he committed on a woman 10 years ago, during which he also allegedly raped her.

He is expected to stand trial for the rape of the woman.

Evans was among three prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison in October 2018.