JUSTICE  Navindra Singh, yesterday, sentenced Seon Solomon to 27 years imprisonment  for  unlawfully killing his father  Seon Solomon on the 9th day of  October 2009, at  Beterverwagting, East Coast, Demerara.

The judge accepted a not guilty plea to murder from Solomon  but guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter for the unlawful killing of his father, who was also known as Candle or Seon Solomon and Seon Brenthnol Solomon.
The prisoner, with a Rastafarian hairstyle, said, “Thank you” to the court as he was being taken away to serve his sentence.
Mrs. Latasha Lake, prosecuting, narrated the facts  of the  case for the benefit of the judge.
Defense counsel, Mr. Keavon Bess asked for leniency during his plea in mitigation, stating that his client was subjected to severe provocation.
Before imposing sentence, the judge wondered how a son could have killed his father over such a reason as given in court.
The killing, it is said, followed an argument between the father and the son which started while the  son was washing clothes when the father threw away the clothing and the container with the water that the son had fetched from some distance away.
According to Mrs Lake, the father had called  his nephew, asking him to remain  in the  yard with the  accused,  pointing out that he was  going to the station to make a report.
The nephew then enquired from the accused what was the problem between him and his father.
Just then the father was pushing his  bicycle through Canterbury Walk on his way to the police station,  when the accused  began pelting him with stones.
At this stage it is said that the accused ran behind his father, pulled a  knife from  his right side pocket and began stabbing his  57-year-old father.
The father received five stab wounds and  was rushed to  hospital  where he was  pronounced dead on arrival.
The post-mortem showed that he died from shock and haemorrhage caused by multiple stab wounds .
The accused was subsequently arrested and charged with murder.
At his trial yesterday he did not waste the court’s time. He pleaded guilty to the lesser count  and admitted that he was responsible for his father’s death.