Murder accused Morris Roberts, called ‘Moses,’ who was on trial for killing a man in 2009, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison on the lesser charge of manslaughter by Justice Franklin Holder in the High Court.
Roberts, on trial before a mixed jury for the murder of Martin Daniels, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Roberts had previously stood trial before Justice Navindra Singh during the June 2013 Demerara Assizes, but was remanded to prison to await a retrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict then.
It was the state’s case that on August 16 at Wanakai, North West District, Essequibo, Roberts murdered Daniels. They had been drinking and conversing with other persons and heated argument ensued between the two and Daniels was tantalising Roberts,
