A 20-year-old, who beat a man to death with a hammer while he was a teenager, was on Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison on a manslaughter charge.
The youth was earlier this year indicted for the capital offence of murder to which he pleaded not guilty. He, however, copped to the lesser charge of manslaughter and admitted that on July 17th, 2016 at Unity Street, La Grange West Bank Demerara, he unlawfully killed James Stewart.
The prosecution’s case was that on the day in question, the then juvenile armed himself with a hammer before setting out to find Stewart.
