Sentence postponed on murder accused convicted of manslaughter
THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Wazim Bux, originally indicted with the murder of Ahmad Rasack alias ‘Deaf man’, pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter at the Berbice Assizes on Wednesday. Justice Brassington Reynolds, before whom the prisoner appeared, ordered a probation report on his background, at the request of defence counsel Kim Kyte-John. 
Consequently, sentence was postponed to January 24.
Bux, also known as ‘Toggy Boy’ or ‘Toggy Son’, was a hunter and a licensed firearm owner when he shot and killed Rasack, the husband of his ex-lover, at Kilcoy, Corentyne, on January 24, 2008.
Rasack, a cane harvester, was wounded in his right ear from gunfire at close range and he succumbed as a result of haemorrhage from the injury he suffered.