The Court of Appeal yesterday denied Hubert Pilgrim’s request for a reduction of the 24-year sentence he is currently serving for the stabbing death of his common-law wife, Natalie Loncke.
Pilgrim was initially indicted for the capital offence but later admitted to the lesser offence of manslaughter, admitting that he unlawfully killed the nursery school teacher on the night of February 12th, 2011, at her Norton Street home.
High Court judge Justice Diana Insanally subsequently sentenced Pilgrim to 24 years behind bars.
Arguing that the sentence