A convict who was a juvenile when he murdered Cuyuni shop owner Bibi Sheniza Khan-Bhola back in 2014, has been sentenced to serve a minimum of eight years behind bars; in addition to being ordered to undergo a host of rehabilitative programmes.
In accordance with the Juvenile Justice Act, notwithstanding that the offender is now an adult, he is afforded certain protections since he would have committed the offence as a juvenile, and for this reason, his identity cannot be published.
In early November, the young man at his arraignment before the High Court at Suddie, pleaded guilty to murdering the woman between February 26 and 27, 2014, at Rock Creek, Cuyuni River.