A now 20-year-old man who, when he was 15, fatally stabbed Hemant Persaud in his heart during a robbery, was on Tuesday sentenced to a term of imprisonment for 12 years, from which time is to be deducted for the more than five years he had spent on remand awaiting trial.
During his remarks at the sentencing hearing, Justice Sandil Kissoon underscored that the young man was being sentenced in accordance with guidelines set out in the Juvenile Justice Act, since he was a child when he committed the offence.