Four years after he brutally raped, murdered and dumped Leonard Archibald’s body in the Berbice River, Hillary Edwards was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall.
Edwards, 32, of Sisters Village, East Bank Ber-bice, was charged in September, 2017, with the murder of 13-year-old Archibald. In late January, after a trial at the High Court in Berbice, Edwards was found guilty of the murder.
On September 17, 2017, Archibald, of Lot 11 Brothers Village, East Bank Berbice, disappeared after he left home to pick up two of his sisters from a birthday party in a nearby village. He was last seen riding a bicycle on the Sisters Village Public Road.
