Teen handed ten-year sentence for lessons stabbing death

Akeem Roberts

Akeem Roberts was yesterday sentenced to ten years in prison by Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court for the 2012 stabbing death of a St George’s Community High School student at a city lessons venue.

Roberts, 19, had been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Shane George in 2012, but pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter last month as his trial was about to start.

George of 143 Roxanne Burnham Gardens and Roberts were at Morgan’s Learning Centre in Campbellville where they