Kevin Mohan known as ‘Chucky,’ was yesterday afternoon handed a life sentence for the murder of his aunt Anita Mohan, who raised him from a baby and whom he slashed and beat to death and then robbed of $10,000 back in 2016.
“Those who take life must themselves be prepared to sacrifice their own liberty and everything that comes along with it, for a significant, if not all of the rest of their lives. Justice demands it,” Justice Sandil Kissoon told an expressionless Mohan who continued to profess his innocence.
“Your cruelty to one who considered and treated you as a son, will attract no mercy from this Court,” the judge declared.
The judge said that he found no factors to mitigate the sentence, noting that while Mohan was only 22 years old when he killed his aunt, this cannot be considered a mitigating factor, since a significant number of murders are committed during robberies by that very age group.
Recalling evidence presented during the trial, the judge told Mohan that he took his aunt’s life with such a degree of savagery, cruelty and brutality that witnesses described the scene as a “blood bath,” which he said described his murderous intent.
The judge referenced also the autopsy report which revealed the severe beating, from which the woman suffered broken ribs, and blunt trauma to her head, neck and chest.
“Your reward for her acts of generosity,” was most barbaric and heinous…“Against your own aunt,” the judge said.
He then told the convict that the sentence had to not only reflect the seriousness and prevalence of the offence, but deter potential offenders.
In the circumstances, Justice Kissoon informed Mohan that he would be sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole only after serving 30 years, from which the prison is to make deductions for time spent on remand while awaiting trial.
Probation and Social Services Officer, Anand Sharma, told the court that both relatives and members of Mohan’s Cummings Lodge community where the convict lived, described him as very hasty and easily angered, especially when he drinks.
The probation officer said that while Mohan was eager to point out that he had completed anger management programmes in prison, he takes no responsibility for killing his aunt.
“It is tantamount to biting the hands that fed him, and this Court must send a condign message that society would in no form or fashion condone such acts,” Sharma said.
When given a chance to speak, the now 26-year-old Mohan protested his innocence, stating that he had left his aunt at home on the day in question and does not know what transpired thereafter. He then said that not only was he innocent, but he received an unfair trial.
“I geh jail fuh something me ain’t know nothing bout. But only Allah could judge me,” he lamented.
A jury had found Mohan guilty of the capital indictment on August 9th, but his sentencing had been deferred for a probation report.
It was the prosecution’s case that on September 4, 2016, the man murdered his aunt, from whom he stole $10,000.
Anita Mohan, called ‘Sandra,’ 48, a vendor, was found dead by her son, Imtiaz Khan, lying on the kitchen floor of her 315 Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara home, with stab wounds about her upper body. The man had also said that his mother’s head was bashed in.
The convict is said to have stabbed his aunt to death at her Cummings Lodge home.
Police had said the nephew confessed to the crime and implicated an accomplice.
Mohan was represented by defence attorney Damian Da Silva.
The state’s case was led by Prosecutor Lisa Cave.
