Accused pleads guilty to manslaughter over fatal beating of Stanleytown woman

Magon Jones

The accused in the death of Magon Jones, the 68-year-old woman who was beaten and had part of her tongue cut off in the attack, has pleaded guilty to killing her.

Stanley Barrow pleaded guilty to manslaughter when he appear-ed before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the High Court in Georgetown on Thursday. He had initially been charged with murder.

Barrow is to be sentenced next Thursday, after a probation re-port, which was requested by his lawyer, is presented to the court.