Eight years for killing friend at Zeelugt

Twenty-eight-year-old father of nine, Satish Diaz, was yesterday sentenced to eight years in jail for the 2014 killing of his friend, Mahendra Singh, who he dealt a single blow, while they were drinking.

Diaz was indicted on the charge of manslaughter, to which he pleaded guilty before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown.

He accepted that between April 1 and 2, 2014, he unlawfully killed Singh, called “Pit Bull” at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo.

The prosecution’s case, which he did not contest, was that