Crabwood Creek fisher gets 11 years for killing friend

A fisherman from Crab-wood Creek, Upper Coren-tyne was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday after he admitted to killing a friend some three years ago.

Stanley Mark Edwards pleaded guilty to man-slaughter when he appear-ed before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the High Court in Berbice on Thursday last.

Edwards admitted to fatally beating his friend, Sahadeo Sankar, 40, in January of 2018.