LBI man to serve 10 years for Mon Repos guard killing

Banand Persaud

Twenty-four-year-old Mahadeo Seewah, who admitted to killing a security guard while committing a robbery five years ago, was yesterday sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, but will serve half the time after mitigating factors were considered.

Seewah pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter before Justice Diana Insanally in the High Court yesterday.

Between April 22 and April 23, 2007, Seewah of Onion Field, La Bonne Intention,