Man jailed 17 years for killing girlfriend

Stacy Ann Thomas

Murder accused Klaus Daniels was yesterday sentenced to 17 years imprisonment by Justice Winston Patterson after he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.

Daniels killed 18-year-old Stacy Ann Thomas on March 14, 2008, at Cowan and Duke streets, Kingston in what he alleged was an act of self defence, though the young woman sustained 35 injuries about the body.

In narrating the facts of the case,