Donnel Trapp and Paul Goriah have both been handed life sentences for the 2016 killing of Soesdyke-Hill Foot farmer/agriculturalist, Anthony Breedy.
The sentences were imposed yesterday by trial Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall, who ordered that Goriah serve a minimum of 25 years behind bars before becoming eligible for parole; while his accomplice Trapp is to serve no less than 21 years before being considered for parole.
The Judge further ordered that Goriah be enlisted in anger management sessions during his incarceration.
Trapp on the other hand, has been ordered to enlist in skills training and to be exposed to counselling on a quarterly basis, given his lawyer’s concern for his client’s mental health which the court heard was the result of the incident and the impact it has had on him.
The Judge has ordered that these sessions commence in April and continue during his incarceration, unless determined by a probation officer that they are no longer needed.
The duo had been indicted for murder, but a jury last month returned unanimous verdicts, convicting both men for the lesser offence of manslaughter.
Back in June of 2022, Keimo Corbin, the third accomplice in Breedy’s killing, was handed a life sentence after pleading guilty to murder.
He admitted murdering Breedy in the company of others, between March 12th and 14th, 2016 during a robbery at the man’s home.
The trial which ended last month was Trapp’s second as a jury back in May of 2022 was unable to arrive at a verdict.
It was, however, the first time that Goriah had been facing trial.
Goriah was among thirteen prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison in July 2017.
He was captured in June, 2020 by authorities in neighbouring Suriname on an attempted robbery there.
He was eventually handed over to local law enforcement authorities two years later.
Background
The agriculturalist had been found dead in the bottom flat of his Lot 67 Hill Foot, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway home.
His hands and feet were bound and his head was bashed in.
A piece of wood and a concrete block suspected to be the murder weapons were found at the scene.
Investigators had said that the men went to Breedy’s home where they bound, gagged and beat him, before ransacking the premises and carting off a quantity of household items.
Police had said that the men were all found with a number of Breedy’s belongings in their possession.
A post-mortem examination would later reveal that he died as a result of asphyxia due to manual strangulation compounded by multiple blunt trauma to the head.
