Tekeram Lachanna yesterday received a 20-year sentence for killing his cousin Mohammed Sheriff in 2007.
But Lachanna, 38, who had been charged with murder and had pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter, will only serve eight years owing to various mitigating factors.
Justice Roxane George, who handed down the sentence at the High Court, took into consideration Lachanna’s guilty plea, time he spent incarcerated and the findings of a probation report.
The probation report, which did not contain many details about Lachanna’s life, was
