Like his two other accomplices, Wayne Chester has also been sentenced to life in prison for the 2017 murder of Guyanese, Cayenne-based clothes vendor, Purcell Moore, who was shot dead during a robbery.
The sentence was handed down yesterday afternoon by Justice Sandil Kissoon, who ordered that Chester serve a minimum of 30 years, before being eligible for parole.
Chester, called ‘Smokey,’ who the prosecution said was the shooter, was unanimously convicted by a jury at the conclusion of his trial last week.
He had been charged along with co-accused Kelvin Persaud and Selwyn Dawson who; in the middle of the trials in June of 2021, pleaded guilty to their respective roles in the killing.