A man ac­cused of mur­der­ing his ex-girl­friend and a man ac­cused of mur­der­ing a teenag­er out­side a trade school will learn their fates in the next two weeks.

High Court Judge Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds set dates for de­liv­er­ing ver­dicts in Shel­don “Worm” Gumbs and Chris­ton “Grimey Dog” Greaves’ judge-alone tri­als dur­ing a vir­tu­al hear­ing yes­ter­day.

Gumbs is ac­cused of killing his 26-year-old for­mer girl­friend, Krys­tal Richards, in 2010, while Greaves is al­leged to have mur­dered 16-year-old Kaz­im Max­ine in an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent three years lat­er.

Richards was killed in her apart­ment in Mal­oney Gar­dens, Arou­ca, when a gun­man shot her through her kitchen win­dow on May 29, 2010.

The wit­ness­es in Gumbs’ tri­al in­clud­ed Richards’ younger sis­ter, who was 12 years old at the time of the shoot­ing, and Richard’s daugh­ter, who was in the apart­ment with her moth­er.

Both con­firmed that they knew Gumbs as Richards’ com­pan­ion, but her sis­ter could not re­mem­ber if she saw him on the day of her mur­der. Richards’ daugh­ter claimed she was watch­ing tele­vi­sion when she heard her moth­er speak­ing to some­one at the front door.

She claimed, short­ly af­ter, she heard a vol­ley of gun­shots and then found her in­jured moth­er.

How­ev­er, she ad­mit­ted that she did not see who her moth­er was speak­ing to or who shot her. Max­ine, mean­while, was at­tacked by two gun­men as he was leav­ing the Laven­tille Tech­nol­o­gy and Con­tin­u­ing Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre af­ter com­plet­ing his first day of class­es on Au­gust 27, 2013.

He at­tempt­ed to evade the gun­men but col­lapsed af­ter be­ing shot by one of them. The oth­er gun­man stood over him and shot him five times in the head.

The State’s main wit­ness against Greaves was a se­cu­ri­ty guard at the cen­tre, who wit­nessed the shoot­ing and al­leged­ly recog­nised him as one of the shoot­ers as she claimed that she pre­vi­ous­ly saw him in Beetham Gar­dens when she pe­ri­od­i­cal­ly vis­it­ed her moth­er’s home.

When she en­tered the wit­ness stand at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain, last month, the wit­ness re­peat­ed­ly ex­pressed reser­va­tions over par­tic­i­pat­ing in the case as she claimed that at the time she im­pli­cat­ed Greaves, she was suf­fer­ing men­tal health is­sues and was con­tem­plat­ing sui­cide.

Dur­ing a break from the case, the woman col­lapsed in a wit­ness wait­ing room al­leged­ly due to some­thing she in­gest­ed.

Jus­tice Ram­sumair-Hinds made the or­der un­der the Men­tal Health Act for her to be tak­en to the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal for a psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion.

Af­ter the hos­pi­tal’s di­rec­tor Dr Samuel Shafe tes­ti­fied that her men­tal health con­di­tion would wors­en if she had to re­turn to court to tes­ti­fy, the wit­ness’ state­ments to po­lice were ten­dered in­to ev­i­dence in lieu of her tes­ti­mo­ny.

Dur­ing yes­ter­day’s hear­ing, Jus­tice Ram­sumair-Hinds held dis­cus­sions with pros­e­cu­tors and the duo’s de­fence at­tor­neys over how she should con­sid­er the le­gal and ev­i­den­tial is­sues in the cas­es in com­ing to her even­tu­al ver­dicts.

Jus­tice Ram­sumair-Hinds is ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er her ver­dict for Greaves next Tues­day, be­fore de­ter­min­ing Gumbs’ fate al­most one week lat­er on June 20.

Gumbs is be­ing rep­re­sent­ed by Michelle Ali, of the Pub­lic De­fend­ers’ De­part­ment (PDD), while Wayne Sturge and Danielle Ram­per­sad are rep­re­sent­ing Greaves.

Both cas­es are be­ing pros­e­cut­ed by Char­maine Samuel and Gilliana Guy.