Jermaine Maynard was yesterday afternoon handed down an 88-year sentence by Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown, after a jury found him guilty of murdering his former girlfriend Carlisa Matthews.
Maynard, 44, who was previously convicted of a similar offence, stood expressionless in the prisoner’s dock as the verdict was announced and the sentence imposed.
In his address to the court before sentencing, state attorney Michael Shahoud asked the judge to take into
