Man, 31, remanded for murder of sex worker

Akeem Fraser was on Friday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of transgender sex worker, Shawn Anthony Simon. Fraser, 31, a resident of Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

He was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge and was remanded to prison until Monday, July 22.

Fraser is one of two suspects who the Police were advised to charge with the crime.

The other suspect, Shaggy Mohamed, 23, is currently on remand on a robbery charge at the Lusignan Prison. However, due to his absence in court on Friday, the charge will be read to him at the next court hearing.

Simon was killed at approximately 02:00 hrs on July 11, near King Street and South Road in Georgetown. At the time, he was accompanied by another sex worker, who goes by the name Unruly Lilwattie.

The News Room was reliably informed after investigators examined the spent shells that were discovered at the crime scene it was found to belong to two firearms, a P80 9mm pistol and an Elite Britain 9mm pistol.

During questioning, one of the suspects provided investigators with details of how the shooting unfolded.

Fraser was a passenger in the car that was used to commit the crime. The car was driven by Mohamed. However, upon further investigations, detectives established that Fraser also shot at Hooper.

Fraser said Mohamed claimed he and Hooper had a problem. He did not provide details.