IS the spectre of seemingly unjustified sentencing of criminals again raising its ugly head?
I am specifically referring to the accused in the wanton killing and robbing of Industry businessman Bedi Ramjewan.
What is so glaring is that the very accused, Edward Skeete, was charged on the 3rd March 2011 for the robbery of a Vryheid’s Lust businessman and is presently on G$60,000  bail. It is also notable that Skeete was charged in July 2008 with armed robbery perpetrated on a Werk-en-Rust businessman and surrendered to the police after a shootout in which his accomplice was killed. This begs the question of why was a man with such a history of armed violence allowed bail, instead of being imprisoned?
Some years ago a senior member of the judiciary and other magistrates were given  cold-shoulder treatment by the authorities when it was thought that there was a spate of inappropriate sentencing.
Maybe Mr. Ramjewan would have been alive today if the accused Skeete was incarcerated for his crime committed in March 2011.