Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping ryoiclra

sei8tron3

Colin Bentick, the man who was on trial for the beheading of another at Seafield,Cheap Jerseys Store, West Coast Berbice,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, and had pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter,China Jerseys Wholesale, was yesterday sentenced to 21 years in jail by Justice James Bovell-Drakes at the Berbice High Court.Bentick,Wholesale Football Jerseys, 39,Cheap Soccer Jerseys For Sale, of No 42 (Seafield) Village, West Coast Berbice, was charged with the murder of 38-year-old Elton Shepherd, called `Fine Man’ and `Scarlon’, a clothes vendor,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, at Seafield, West Coast Berbice,NFL Jerseys China, on October 31 2007.Justice Bovell- Drakes, before handing down his decision, recounted the gruesome incident that was presented earlier by State prosecutor Attorney at law Rondell Weaver.Weaver had told the court that Shepherd and a group of persons were sitting underneath an old house playing dominoes at Seafield, West Coast Berbice. She had stated that some time between noon and 13:00 hrs they were approached by Bentick who went up to Shepherd and stated that “Shepherd is a dead man”.He then asked Shepherd if he knew anything about his “Data” (his girl), to which Shepherd responded in the negative.  Bentick then left and returned with a cutlass and proceeded to chop Shepherd across his right hand, the other persons ran away. Shepherd allegedly ran for his life but fell in the process and was again attacked by the accused.Police officers who were passing were informed by residents what was taking place. The police proceeded to the area and saw Bentick chopping at a person lying in the street.He was instructed to stop, but continued to advance toward the ranks with his cutlass. The police then left to get assistance as the man then proceeded to cut off Shepherd’s head and held it up in his left hand. As police reinforcement came Bentick was arrested and taken into custody, where he was subsequently charged.Justice Bovell-Drakes did make mention of all of the above and stressed on some of the statements. He stated that the accused did state that he took a smoke before going home and return with his cutlass.” He then chopped and rolled Shepherd’s head off.Justice Drakes stressed on the injuries which included open incise wounds and compound fractures to various parts of the body. He stated that the wound to the arms showed that Shepherd was trying to bar the chops.Justice Drakes noted that the time Bentick spent in the Psychiatric Ward of the Georgetown Hospital and of his failure to take follow up treatment. He spoke of the trauma that any child and adult would have experienced after witnessing the killing. The children might still be traumatized, he added.Justice Bovell-Drakes told the accused that the crime was a premeditated and dastardly act. He told the accused, “You use a spliff before you committed the crime; you went home and collected a cutlass which by all accounts was sharp; you inflicted chop after chop on an helpless defenseless man to cause him grievously bodily harm; you fail to heed the pleading of the police ranks and you only stopped when the head was severed from the body.“You were then walking on the road with cutlass in hand and your statement that you had to do the sacrifice shows how you planned and premeditated to do the act.”The judge said that Shepherd was 38 years old when he was killed and taking into account Berbicians live for a long time, for at least to 70 years, he had planned to sentence Bentick to 32 years.But, taking some mitigating factors into consideration he first reduced five years for the time he was in prison, another six years for his guilty plea leaving a total of 21 years.Justice Drakes also ordered that Bentick be examined periodically to ascertain the state of his psychiatric and mental health and that he be given whatever medication that may be necessary for his rehabilitation.Bentick’s sentence was postponed from Friday after a Probation Report was presented and a plea of mitigation by Attorney at Law Perry Gosai who was sitting in for Attorney Mursaleine Bacchus.Today attorney at law Rabindranauth Singh appeared for Mr Bacchus who was again unavoidably absent.A Probation report had stated that the accused was the father of two.He was not privy to much formal education and earned a living by operating a small grocery and ground provision business. He was a regular user of Cannabis Sativa and further stated that during 2003 the accused was an inmate at the Georgetown Hospital for abnormal behaviour.It mentioned that persons in the community complained of the erratic and threatening behaviour of the accused and that numerous reports were made to the police stations in the neighborhood by persons who complained often of aggressive and threatening behaviour.The report also mentioned that the accused had showed mental instability for a long time before he killed Shepherd.Attorney at law Gossai in his pleading urged the court to take everything into consideration and to temper justice with mercy. He had said that his client has shown remorse and did not waste the court’s time, in that he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.He had urged the court to commit his client to the National Psychiatric Hospital where he could be properly treated and rehabilitated.Justice Bovell Drakes had expressed his disappointment in the defence. Who he had expected would have brought some of Bentick relatives to testify in court so that the court could have had a better insight and be a little more informed.