Kazim Mohamed, the La Penitence man who stabbed his brother to death on January 16, 2005, will spend the next 12 years in jail.

Mohamed appeared before Justice James Bovell-Drakes in the High Court last month charged with murder and but the jury later found him guilty of manslaughter last Monday. The judge had ordered a probation report and the matter was adjourned to yesterday for sentencing.

In the January 17, 2005 edition of the Stabroek News, under the headline ‘Brothers row ends in fatal stabbing’, it was reported that 48-year-old Nazim Mohamed was fatally stabbed following an argument with the defendant about the pending return of his son; who was in Trinidad at the time.

State Prosecutors Prithima Kissoon and Diana Boyan had based their case entirely on a confession submitted by the defendant. Mohamed’s lawyer Peter Hugh had relied on the same confession to defend his client.

After the probation report was presented to the court Justice Bovell-Drakes sentenced Mohamed to one dozen years for killing his brother.