-accomplice gets 24 years
Rooplall Abrahim, who admitted to fatally chopping an elderly Bush Lot businessman and his common-law wife in 2016, has been sentenced to life in prison, while his accomplice, Madanpaul Gocoul, has been sentenced to 24 years for the crime.
Justice Brassington Reynolds handed down the sentences over the course of Monday and Tuesday at the High Court in Berbice after the two men, who had been charged with two counts of murder, pleaded guilty to lesser counts of manslaughter.
On the morning of January 9, 2016, Arthur Doodnauth Rajkumar, 81, and Diane Chamanlall, 45, were discovered with gaping wounds about their bodies in pools of blood at their Lot 93 ‘A’ Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice home.
