Rudolph London, 43, will be spending the next 14 years in jail for killing his former partner, Shaunell Warrick.
London, 43, who was originally charged with Warrick’s murder but pleaded to the lesser count of manslaughter on March 10, was sentenced yesterday by Justice Franklyn Holder at the High Court.
The judge had deferred sentencing until yesterday after London’s attorney, Adrian Thompson, successfully requested the presentation of a probation report.
London, of 109 Best Village, West Coast Demerara, had accepted that on January 31, 2011, he killed Warrick, with whom he had had an on-and-off relationship.
He had been accused of severely beating Warrick, a mother of two and a teacher at the East Street Nursery School, who died a month later in hospital.
Relatives had said that Warrick, 39, formerly of 3471 Stevedore Housing Scheme, had sustained injuries as a result of the beating London inflicted with a cutlass at his home on New Year’s Day, in 2011. She suffered a fractured skull and succumbed on January 31 at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Initially, London was charged with attempted murder but the charge was withdrawn and the substantive charge of murder was instituted after Warrick died.
On Tuesday, London received a three-year prison sentence after admitting to having marijuana in prison. He was already serving a six-month sentence for narcotics possession that began last December.
