(Barbados Nation) “Justice was served this morning, but the lives lost will never be returned to us,” Tessa Chaderton-Shaw said after Charles Matthew Frederick was sentenced yesterday for the shooting deaths of Arthur Chaderton and his son-in-law Gerhard Stock on August 2, 2011.
Speaking on behalf of the family, Chaderton-Shaw added: “. . . we do feel that the sentence meted out will act as a big deterrent to the perpetrators of gun violence.”
Calling the double killings horrendous and violent, Justice Maureen Crane-Scott imposed two concurrent life sentences on Frederick.
The judge told the remorseful killer, who had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter, that the facts of the case were on the borderline of murder with no mitigating features: “I am satisfied that both offences in this case are so grave and so serious that by their very nature they warrant very long custodial sentences,” she stated.
