Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday handed down a 30-year sentence to Timothy McKenzie, who was on trial for the 2018 murder of Stabroek Market vendor Richard Noel.
Though charged with murder, McKenzie was found guilty by a jury of the lesser crime of manslaughter.
Following hours of deliberations at the High Court in Demerara, the panel in mid October returned with its verdict acquitting McKenzie of the capital offence, but finding him guilty on the lesser charge. Yesterday, Justice Kissoon started the sentencing at 25 years and added five years for McKenzie’s previous involvement in violent crimes.