GUYANA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERER OF 17-YEAR-OLD

February 14, 2013: In Guyana, a Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice tractor operator who was on trial at the High Court in Berbice for the murder of a teen was sentenced to death by hanging.
The case presented by State Prosecutor, attorney-at-law Dionne Mc Cammon was that on September 20, 2009, Ramesh ‘Bado’ Sahadeo, 45, dealt a single slash with a cutlass to 17-year-old Darshanan Ramanan’s neck, resulting in his death.
After deliberating for over two hours the jury returned with a unanimous verdict of guilty.
Justice Brassington Reynolds then read the sentence to Sahadeo.
Defence counsel, Raymond Ali told stabroeknews newspaper last evening that he intends to appeal the case.
In an unsworn statement from the dock, Sahadeo said he left home around 2:30 pm on the day of the murder to visit a friend, ‘Sweets’ in another section of the village.
He said too that he was on his way home about half hour later and while walking along Middle Dam he saw Ramanan and two other men. (Sources: stabroeknews.com, 15/02/2013)